Fit Tip

Take a moment at the end of this week to clean up your "space."  If you have a messy desk, cluttered closet, or maybe you live out of the car, spend a few minutes tidying up; you might find yourself cleaning up your diet as well!  When life is more organized, there is time to contemplate and prepare healthier food choices (and maybe that candy bar from 2013 won't be hiding under a stack of folders!).

Fit Tip

Scissor Kick

works hips, inner and outer thighs, upper and lower abs

 

 

Lie in a crunch position with hour hands behind your ears and shoulder blades elevated.

Raise legs off the floor six inches and open them to a "V."

Cross left leg over right, then right over left while maintain the crunch position.  This is one rep.

Repeat for two sets of 25 reps.

 

For an extra kick, try this move while lying in your bed before you get up tomorrow! One move, serious results!



Fit Tip

We all do it!  Sitting at your desk all day, shoulders hunched, head jutted forward, scowl on your face and there is a name for why you feel the way you do after only a short time at the office:  upper-crossed syndrome.  By creating this environment for your muscles, imbalances in the neck, chest, shoulders, and back are occurring.
Try at YTA just at your desk a couple of times throughout the day to work out that kink. 

• Stand with feet hip-width apart.  Keep abs tight and bend at the waist slightly.
• Lift arms in front and just to the sides of body at a 45 degree angle, keep thumbs up, and squeeze your shoulder blades together (Y)
• Move arms straight out to sides keeping thumbs up (T)
• Lower arms to sides of body with thumbs up, retracting and depressing shoulder blades (A)

Move at a slow pace and repeat for two sets of 10 reps.