Tip #1: The Brazilian Move
The good thing about this move is that you don’t need to go a gym to do it; you don’t even need to find time in your day. Why? Because you will do this move while you brush your teeth!
How it works: Standing straight in your bathroom, bend your knees slightly. Tilt your hips forward while contracting them, then pull them back.
Remember to make a very strong squeeze when you finish the forward move. As you brush your teeth a minimum of twice a day, that’s six minutes a day of Brazilian move. Along with a healthy eating, this will guarantee you will get a nice rear for this summer—yeah!
Tip #2: Use Your Hands
There are some chores you would be better off doing by hand! For instance, washing dishes by hand will burn seventy-eight calories per half hour. Knowing that a pound is about 3,500 calories, and assuming you will wash dishes half an hour over forty-five days, you will have lost one pound without knowing it ... translated to a year, this amounts to about eight pounds!
Tip #3: How to Get Your Sixty Minutes of Accumulated Exercise a Day
The General Surgeon’s orders are to get sixty minutes of accumulated exercise per day. (This can be sliced up into six small walks without any problem.) Beside burning calories, when you walk, you will build the big muscles of your lower body. Muscle tissue uses up more calories to maintain than fat, even at rest. Again, you don’t have to go for a sixty-minute walk if you don’t feel like it. You can slice it up into four fifteen-minute walks: One at home when you wake up—will also help you wake up even more; two at lunch time—go to your lunch place and come back (just select a place that’s fifteen minutes away from your office); and the fourth one in the middle of the afternoon to help you remain focused until the end of the day.
Tip #4: Manage Your Food Cravings by Being Proactive
Your body produces endorphins when you do aerobic exercise, which means getting your heart rate up for at least twenty minutes. Aerobic exercise produces endorphins—body chemicals that induce euphoric and pleasurable feelings. These are the same chemicals produced in response to eating fat/sweet foods.
Tip #5: Improve Your Posture
This is a great exercise to improve your posture, thereby making you look great when you walk, when you are on the beach, or when you enter a business meeting room.
On a yoga mat, stand straight. Breathe a few times: inhale, exhale, inhale, and exhale slowly. Tuck your toes under and push back into a low squat, with fingertips lightly touching the floor. Drop your chin so it’s relaxed toward the chest. Slowly rise from the squat position by pushing your heels toward the floor until your torso hangs forward and down. Keep the knees slightly bent and aligned over the center of each foot. Breathe, relax the upper body, and hang like a rag doll. Inhale in that position.
Exhale as you engage your powerhouse and slowly roll up to a standing position. When you are standing, straighten your knees with your arms relaxed at your sides. Inhale once again, and as you exhale, rise slowly to balance on the balls of your feet. Breathe, relax the shoulders, and maintain this balance for several seconds. You can do this exercise three times each time you finish a workout.
It may sound complicated by reading this text; I suggest you print this tip, take it with you wherever you do your workouts, do it once with the paper, and once you have understood the move, re-do it without reading.
