Hey, you guys!
I'm Melissa for ATHLEANXX for Women, and today I'm going to show you my favorite waist slimming
exercises.
Let's go!
My five favorites, right now.
The one thing you're going to need is something to slide your feet on.
I have these cool, little sliders.
Some people have used paper plates on carpet, other people have used a little towel that
you can find, a little washcloth even, if you have tile, and that's not going to be
used until exercise number three.
Let me start off at the top.
First one: para-jumper plank jacks.
This one is fun.
It might feel a little awkward, so listen to how we begin, and you'll have it in just
a second.
Don’t need these yet.
You're going to start off in the plank position, but your feet wide.
Start with your feet wide.
These are plank jacks.
So if you s tart with your feet wide, I want you to do one plank jack, then hop your feet
up, and try to clap them at the top.
Then put them back wide.
In, out, jump.
That's my first favorite.
Number two: side plank hip dip.
You're going to get on one hand, to the side.
I like to have my feet one, in front of the other.
Some people like to stack their feet, but I get a little off balance.
So I like to keep my feet just like that.
What you want to do – you can put your hand on your hip, and you just dip your hip low,
and push it up really quick.
And don’t forget the other side.
You don’t want to have one really nice set of obliques, and then they're kind of weird,
and sad on the other side.
Make sure you hit both sides.
Third exercise: now you're going to use those sliders.
So grab those towels, or your paper plates, or if you have something cool, like these,
you're going to put your feet on them, and you're going to start off in pushup position.
You're going to pull both feet toward you, but keeping your legs straight.
And put them back.
This is a lower ab exercise.
Which, a lot of times, we do not pay much attention to those.
Try to get your feet up as close to your hands as you can.
Number four: scissors.
Now, anytime you do an exercise on your back you really need to focus on keeping just your
lower back on the ground, and raising your shoulders off the ground because what happens
is, it doesn’t work if you're laying completely flat like this, and you're just doing scissors.
So the focus is to push your lower back into the ground, keep your shoulders off the ground,
legs straight, and we're going to scissor.
This is also a great lower ab exercise.
But if you relax, it does nothing.
In fact, you could strain your back a little bit.
The last exercise is going to be double high knees.
I always feel it in my abs, even though it's crazy cardio, and you'll feel it in your legs
as well, but waist training exercises – there's a whole thing you have to focus on.
You've got to strengthen your abs, not just up here, but your lower abs, and your obliques.
You need to watch your diet, especially, and you need to do cardio.
So this is a cardio exercise that I like for waist training.
It's the knees, and feet.
Knee, knee, foot, foot.
And those are my five favorite exercises.
Awesome job, you guys.
I hope you enjoyed my five favorite waist slimming exercises.
I'm Melissa for ATHLEANXX for Women, and I will see you guys next time.
Bye.