Are You Ready for Skinny White Jeans?
This is my go-to exercise for shaping the hips and thighs. The 4-part plie
is the ultimate multi-tasker for toning the inner and outer thighs, firming the glutes and flattening the belly. And there’s more: the beauty of it is that you can do it at the kitchen counter while you’re waiting for your coffee in the morning, your microwave at lunch or your pasta water at dinner.
As you’ll see in the video, there are 4-parts to the plie:
•10 full range of motion
•10 pulses up and down
•10 pelvic tilts
•10 pulses pushing the knees back, holding the pelvic tilt.
When you do each part correctly, you can literally feel all your muscles tightening up. Do two or three of them every other day and the next time you go to zip us those skinny white jeans, they should slip right on.
Joan Pagano is the author of best-selling fitness books, including the new release Strength Training Exercises for Women (DK, 2014), an informational speaker on health and fitness topics and the owner of Joan Pagano Fitness in New York City. Former trainer to Jacqueline Onassis and Caroline Kennedy, Joan has specialized in strength training for women since 1988. She is an authority on the benefits of exercise for women's health issues such as menopause, osteoporosis and breast cancer, as well as strength training through the decades. Joan is the proud finisher of seven marathons and a member of the Shaker Heights High School Alumni Hall of Fame.
Visit Joan at: www.joanpaganofitness.com/
