Tips for the Perfect Summer Body!

Crunches for a Flat Belly

Crunches will help scuplt your mid section and uncover
 those ads just in time for summer! The Teaser is a 
new effective exercise that activates 39% of your re

ctus abdominus muscle (your six pack!) and 266% of your external obliques (your love handles!).

How to do it:
Lie face-up on a mat. Lift your legs so your thighs are perpendicular to the floor and your knees are bent 90 degrees. Raise your hands toward the ceiling. Lift your torso and straighten your legs, so your body forms a V. Hold for one second, then roll back down, keeping your legs raised. Do 8 to 10 reps.

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Squats for a Perfect Bum

To tone and shape a great bikini bottom for summer, try doing hip extensions as well as squats. Extensions hits 55% of your hamstring muscle and 79% of your glute muscle (your bum!).

How to do it:
Get on your hands and knees. Keeping your knees bent, lift your right heel toward the ceiling, then lower it back down to the starting position. Do 12 reps, then repeat on the other side.

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Leg Circles for Toned Thighs
A great Pilates technique that will help tone and sculpt your thighs. Once the leg circle get too easy, try writing the alphabet with your toes! To add more resistance use an exercise band!

How to do it:Lie back on the mat with your arms by your sides and your palms facing down. Begin by pointing with your left foot, as if reaching out with your toes toward the ceiling, and rotate your leg slightly outward.Inhale, and trace a circle on the ceiling with your left leg, moving your whole leg, but keeping your hips still. Don't lift your left hip off the floor.Trace the circle on the ceiling 5 times in a clockwise direction. Repeat in a counter-clockwise direction. Switch legs and repeat 5 times

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Paleo Diet

Paleo Diet

What Is Paleo?

Paleo, also known as Caveman, and Stone Age diet draws its core principles ancestral lifestyle and combines those with modern scientific research and a good dose of common sense. The diet has gained a huge following in the 21st century and as a result it is often misrepresented, and often misunderstood. The thing about Paleo is that it’s not really a new diet. The lifestyle – yes it’s much more than a diet – has been around for many years.

What to Eat, What not to Eat

 What It benefits and prevents

• Obesity
• Cardiovascular disease (heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, congestive heart failure, atherosclerosis)
• Type 2 diabetes
• Cancer
• Autoimmune diseases (multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis
• Osteoporosis
• Acne
• Myopia macular degeneration, glaucoma
• Varicose veins, hemorrhoids, diverticulosis, gastric reflux
• Gout

 

The Lemon Detox Diet

How to make the drink!

The Drink Consists of:

Madal Bal Natural Tree Syrup 

This is the most important ingredient in the drink. It is a combination of South East Asian palm syrups and Canadian grade C maple syrup. The natural tree syrup gives individuals energy during the cleanse in the form of a digestible carbohydrate and hihg level of potassium

Lemon Juice

Cayenne Pepper

This is great for the metabolizer. It also adds zing to the drink!

Pure water

This carries the ingredients throughout the body, internally bathing and releasing wastes and toxins. It also keeps the body hydrates throughout the program.

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What is Sydney Fitness Blogger?

Sydney Fitness Blogger is a newly established group of women who all share a common interest in the human body and what it could become through proper nutrition and training. All three women will be posting their own thoughts of what their idea of fitness is, and research they may have gathered about the fitness world. Different types of diets, exercises, mobility, images, videos, and inspirational quotes will be posted on a weekly basis to assist the community in gathering a better understanding of fitness. We hope this Blog will be successful as all group members have different ideas and views about fitness which will allow to blog to have a broader audience.

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