Muscle & Fitness Hers South Africa – July-August 2019

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ELBOW TAP

• Get in top of plank
  position, feet hip width.


• Touch your right hand to
  your left elbow, lower hand
  back to floor, then repeat
  on other side. Continue
  for time.

INCHWORM

• Starting in top of plank
  position, hinge hips up to
  ceiling while walking hands
  toward feet.


• Walk hands back to top of
  plank. Continue for time.

OBLIQUE CRUNCH

• Sit on floor and lean back
  45 degrees.


• Roll onto right glute with
  left knee stacked on top
  of right knee, both bent
  90 degrees, and fingers
  behind head, elbows out
  to sides.


• Crunch knees up to chest
  as you lift your chest to
  your centreline.


• Return to start by
  straightening legs out
  and leaning torso back
  without touching either
  to floor. Continue for time.

CRUNCH (LONG)

• Lie on your back with
  knees bent 90 degrees,
  fingers behind head, and
  abs tight.


• Crunch up. Reverse slowly.

Abs every day? Yup. To

get a circus-strong core,

it takes a daily

commitment.

TRAINER:

Bryan D.Burnstein

Head of performance science

at

Cirque du Soleil

JEAN-FRANCOIS GRATTON/SHOOT STUDIO

(^) 2019 JUL/AUG | M&F HERS | 77