Image Right: answers to your fitness questions

This is a website designed to help those in search of answers to their questions regarding their fitness programs (or lack thereof) and questions regarding general nutrition in their diet.

The experts here are all qualified & practicing fitness instructors and are university students studying Fitness and Nutrition.

Simply email your questions to image.right@fitness.com and one of the experts here will email you back with some answers as soon as possible!

MUSCLE GROUP (& ITS OPPOSING MUSCLE GROUP) OF THE WEEK:

Abdominals (& lower back)

abdominal exercise: lie on your back, knees bent, feet shoulder width apart. Rest your head in your hands (or keep hands at side of head) so that your elbows are out to the sides and pick a point on the ceiling straight up above you. While squeezing your abs and pulling them towards the floor, lift your torso up until your shoulders are off the floor, hold and then lower. Repeat this movement until you're fatigued to know what you're capable of at this point in time and then build on that number! Once you have completed this exercise, while lying on your back, stretch your legs out far and your arms far above your head to get a good ab and full body stretch. Hold for 30 seconds.

lower back exercise: lie on the floor, face down, body straight. While looking at the floor, extend your arms straight out in front of you. Lift them up a couple of inches off the floor, hold and then lower. Repeat this movement ten times. While looking at the floor, raise your legs off the floor a couple of inches, hold and then lower. Repeat this movement ten times. Add both of these movements together and repeat ten times. It's important that you're not lifting your legs or arms much more than a couple of inches off the floor (your hips should always stay touching the floor) so as to not strain your back. Do a cat stretch after completing this exercise. Hold for 30 seconds.

It's important that if you work one of these two muscles groups that you work the other one as well so as to maintain a balance in your body.

Good luck and let me know things are going and if you would like me to concentrate on a specific muscle group next week!

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