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If you'd love to sculpt six-pack abs but you don't have the resources to invest in an expensive gym membership or spend hours with a personal trainer, there's good news. You can carve a toner mid-section by finding an exercise you enjoy and performing it regularly in the comfort of your own home. One to consider is the Jiggle-Free Abs workout which can help you burn 130 calories or more in just one half hour. Used in conjunction with a healthy diet and cardiovascular exercise you'll have everything you need to torch calories and reveal a shapelier, healthier you.
Popular, Fast and Fun
The Firm launched the popular "Jiggle-Free Abs" workout in April 2006. The fast-moving, 26-minute DVD combines about 10 minutes of light cardiovascular exercise with almost 20 minutes of familiar strength-training moves like crunches, planks and leg lifts to target your core and major muscles of your back and legs. Half of the moves are done on the floor and half can be done using a chair or stool or the proprietary "Transfirmer" accessory. The video is available through online retailers and the company website.
Your 50 Calorie Warm-Up
"Jiggle-Free Abs" begins with 10 minutes of low-impact aerobic moves used to warm up. You can simulate these exercise by marching in place or walking around your home at a moderate pace. According to Harvard Medical School, a person weighing 155 pounds can burn around 149 calories walking at a speed of 3.5 mph for 30 minutes. A 10-minute warm-up, therefore, can burn approximately 50 calories depending on how much you weigh and how intensely you exercise.
Grab a Chair for 50 More
The next 10 minutes of the "Jiggle-Free Abs" video features trainer Allie Del Rio demonstrating several strength exercises using the Transfirmer, a portable stack of steps than adjusts from 6 to 14 inches in height. You can get similar results with a chair or stool. You'll do back leg lifts to work your hamstrings, side twists to work your obliques and reverse crunches to work the transverse abdominis muscle that runs across your lower abdomen. These calisthenic-type moves can burn another 45 to 55 calories or so, depending on your weight.
Hit the Floor for 50 More
In the last 10 minutes of the program, you get to fire up your abdominis rectus muscle and obliques doing crunches that engage the sides and front of your entire stomach. These more-vigorous exercise moves can burn around 100 calories in just 10 minutes. Work out to the "Jiggle-Free Abs" DVD every other day and you'll start to see the underlying stomach muscles develop and strengthen.
But, Wait, There's More
Compliment your ab workouts with 30 minutes of cardiovascular exercise most days of the week. The heart-pumping aerobic exercise -- like swimming, bicycling and jogging -- is what really torches calories and can help you lose the subcutaneous body fat that can create the jiggle on your stomach, thighs and buttocks. Consume a diet rich in protein, lean meats, fruits and vegetables and you can have a fitness program ideally suited for optimal health and vitality -- no gym membership required.
Popular, Fast and Fun
The Firm launched the popular "Jiggle-Free Abs" workout in April 2006. The fast-moving, 26-minute DVD combines about 10 minutes of light cardiovascular exercise with almost 20 minutes of familiar strength-training moves like crunches, planks and leg lifts to target your core and major muscles of your back and legs. Half of the moves are done on the floor and half can be done using a chair or stool or the proprietary "Transfirmer" accessory. The video is available through online retailers and the company website.
Your 50 Calorie Warm-Up
"Jiggle-Free Abs" begins with 10 minutes of low-impact aerobic moves used to warm up. You can simulate these exercise by marching in place or walking around your home at a moderate pace. According to Harvard Medical School, a person weighing 155 pounds can burn around 149 calories walking at a speed of 3.5 mph for 30 minutes. A 10-minute warm-up, therefore, can burn approximately 50 calories depending on how much you weigh and how intensely you exercise.
Grab a Chair for 50 More
The next 10 minutes of the "Jiggle-Free Abs" video features trainer Allie Del Rio demonstrating several strength exercises using the Transfirmer, a portable stack of steps than adjusts from 6 to 14 inches in height. You can get similar results with a chair or stool. You'll do back leg lifts to work your hamstrings, side twists to work your obliques and reverse crunches to work the transverse abdominis muscle that runs across your lower abdomen. These calisthenic-type moves can burn another 45 to 55 calories or so, depending on your weight.
Hit the Floor for 50 More
In the last 10 minutes of the program, you get to fire up your abdominis rectus muscle and obliques doing crunches that engage the sides and front of your entire stomach. These more-vigorous exercise moves can burn around 100 calories in just 10 minutes. Work out to the "Jiggle-Free Abs" DVD every other day and you'll start to see the underlying stomach muscles develop and strengthen.
But, Wait, There's More
Compliment your ab workouts with 30 minutes of cardiovascular exercise most days of the week. The heart-pumping aerobic exercise -- like swimming, bicycling and jogging -- is what really torches calories and can help you lose the subcutaneous body fat that can create the jiggle on your stomach, thighs and buttocks. Consume a diet rich in protein, lean meats, fruits and vegetables and you can have a fitness program ideally suited for optimal health and vitality -- no gym membership required.
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