Leave behind the bathroom scrubbing pity party and become a Potty Hottie with our latest move for your legs.

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Holding on to your sink with one hand, bring one knee up in front of your body.  Engage your abs.  Leading with the heel of your raised leg, take the leg back (kneecap now pointing to the ground), now bring the leg around and up in front of the body again. (See video.) Do not let your foot touch the ground between reps.  Continue this exercise for a set of 12 before switching legs.  Keep abs engaged and the movement slow and controlled throughout.

Learn to love your laundry – and your newly toned arms – with our Hold ‘n Fold.

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Grab a single piece of clean laundry and hold it in front of you with both hands at chest level and arms fully extended. Pull tightly on each end of the piece of the laundry creating tension throughout your arms. Keep your abs engaged (squeezed in) and your knees slightly bent throughout this exercise. Hold for 10 seconds.  Now, keep arms extended while you fold your piece of laundry.  Relax the tension in your arms when you put the piece down and then get right back into it with your next piece. Continue until all of your laundry is folded.

This is a great way to take care of yourself while taking care of your stairs.
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Stand at the bottom of the stairs with your right side parallel to the first stair with feet forward and knees slightly bent, dust cloth in hand. Lift your right leg and place it one step above the stair you will be cleaning (or two stairs up). Come down into a squat making sure your knees don’t go beyond your toes and keeping all of your weight in your heels. Clean the empty stair that should be between your two legs. (See video.) When you finish, come up out of your squat using your top or right leg to pull yourself up to standing. Continue this same movement to the top of your stairs. When you’ve completed cleaning one side of your stairs, return to the bottom, align your left side parallel with the bottom stair and repeat, now working the opposite leg as you clean the other side of your stairs.

Take great care in doing this exercise and hold on to the railing for extra balance as you clean your way to slimmer thighs and glutes!

Turn traffic jams into terrific gams with this commuter squeeze.

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This exercise can only be done while the car is safely in park.  Place your hands on the steering wheel and with both feet firmly planted, keep your heels on the floorboards and raise your toes.  Hold for 10 seconds.  Slowly relax toes back down.  Now, keep your toes on the floorboards and slowly raise your heels.  Hold for 10 seconds.  Repeat.

Keep your abs engaged and squeeze to create tension in your legs focusing on your inner thighs throughout this exercise.

Put some kick into your fall clean up with this double-duty approach to raking.

Stand with rake extended in front of body. (See top photo.)

While raking leaves in toward you, kick your right leg slowly behind you. (See bottom photo.)

This is a slow and controlled movement designed to tone your legs.  Keep the standing knee slightly bent and your core engaged throughout this movement.  Alternate legs as you continue to rake in your leaves. Do at least 2 sets of 12 on each side.

Variation: Kick it up a notch to turn this exercise into a cardio boost!  Instead of raising your legs slowly, kick back quickly alternating legs as you briskly rake your yard clean.

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You’ll never think of drivers’ ed the same way again after toning up with our 10 & 2 exercise.

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Fully stopped at a red light or in the parking lot, extend arms and grab the steering wheel with hands placed at the 10 and 2 o’clock positions. Push hands toward one another squeezing the wheel.   Hold for 10 seconds then release.  Expand this isometric exercise to include squeezing your abs, glutes, and inner thighs.  Hold for 10-15 seconds and release. Remember to breathe throughout this exercise.

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Bent over raking all afternoon?  Raise your rake for a good a stretch and some great shoulder toning.

Hold rake in front of chest with arms fully extended. Feet should be shoulder width apart, knees slightly bent.

Keep your core engaged and slowly bring the rake straight up overhead.  Just as slowly, lower rake down to starting position in front of chest.

Repeat for 2 sets of 12.

To add a stretch:  Hold rake above head and slowly bend to one side.  Keep hips facing forward and bend from your waist allowing arms to follow.  This move originates from your waist. Keep your lower body still as you do these stretches.  Hold for 10 seconds and then come back to starting position with rake raised above your head. 

Alternate sides until you have completed 1 set of 12.

Your back should be straight while performing this exercise.  If you’re lower back tends to sway during this move, straighten your knees to help keep back straight.

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Put some miles between you and shoulder tension with this great stoplight stretch.

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Start with your arms extended and hands on the steering wheel.  Bring shoulder blades back as if they were going to touch each other.  Hold and squeeze before relaxing arms.  Continue this exercise until the light turns green or the traffic starts moving.  Remember to breathe throughout this exercise.

Put some spin on routine raking with our Turning Leaves Twist.

Stand in front of your pile of leaves with feet shoulder width apart and place your leaf bag to one side of your body. 

Squat down to grab some leaves.  Keep your weight in your heels and make sure your knees do not extend in front of your toes.

As you come up slowly twist from your waist to drop the leaves in the bag.  Hold this twist – abs tight – for a 3-count of “Squeeze-It-In” before returning to center and squatting down to grab more leaves. 

The twist originates from the waist and your hips should remain facing forward throughout.  Continue until you have completed 12 squat/twists on one side, then move bag to opposite side for another set of 12.

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Sitting in the car pool line doesn’t have to be a waste of time.  Get great mileage out of our Rotate the Tires Twist.

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With car safely in park, extend your right arm placing your right hand on the steering wheel.  Bring left arm across body and reach hand down and around your seat.  Turn your body to the right from your waist.  Bring your head around and look over your right shoulder stretching your neck.  Hold this stretch for a 3-count of “Squeeze-It-In” before coming back to the starting position.  Switch sides and repeat stretch.

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