Comments on: Guest Post: Marci Lall on Fitness

By: Marci Lall

Marci Lall — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:33:19 +0000

@Albertha Great question!

Yeah you don’t really want any jerky movements, keep your body under control as much as you can. Not necessarily slow but at a pace where you can execute the movement without falling over or straining yourself.

You can definitely mix it up a bit and modify the exercise to your liking.

For the exercise demonstrated above you don’t need to pause at the end..

BUT…. if it does get a bit easy and you want to go for an extra burn you can hold your legs out and contract your stomach for 3 seconds before pulling your legs in and moving on to your next rep.

Hope that helps and thanks so much for your question Albertha!

By: Albertha Bois

Albertha Bois — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:44:45 +0000

Great workout, I have one questio about the abdominal leg extensions. You suggest doing them smooth, does this mean going slow throughout the movement and also should I pause at the end or no.

By: Marci Lall

Marci Lall — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:24:07 +0000

Hey Melanie,

Yeah the workout isn’t supposed to be boring and take you a crazy amount of time to complete.

thats why I kept it short but intense at the same time so you don’t spend all day doing exercises yet you get the results that your looking for.

Your Welcome!

By: Melanie Tindale

Melanie Tindale — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:58:47 +0000

The chart is great! At first, I looked at the exercises and started picturing doing rep after boring rep for daunting amounts of time. Then I saw the chart. WOW! What a great guideline. Now THAT is something I can fit into my day without dreading it!!! Thank you!!

By: Marci Lall

Marci Lall — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:11:26 +0000

@ Alexia

Hey Alexia..lol..yeah i know what you mean. The abdominal leg extension will actually work the lower area that you’re referring to. But if you’d like a variety of exercises you can check out this link for a pretty cool tummy tightening resource.

Enjoy

http://tinyurl.com/m5s4dy

By: Alexia

Alexia — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:46:17 +0000

So that totally didn’t make sense to me after I posted it LOL But do you know what I mean? It’s like the “second belly” LOL

By: Alexia

Alexia — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:45:26 +0000

Awesome – I’m liking that I don’t have to go hit up the store for equipment!

You got an exercise that gets rid of the fat underneath the belly button?

By: Marci Lall

Marci Lall — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:28:40 +0000

@ MG – glad you like it! Way to take action on the info.

And yeah I’m sure you ladies are sick of seeing those “skinny girls” in every ad, magazine and posters.

Let me know if you have any other questions

Marci

By: MG @ MommyGeekology.com

MG @ MommyGeekology.com — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:55:30 +0000

The chart is awesome, I am printing it and putting it on my fridge.

And I am SO RELIEVED to finally see images of a woman working out who isn’t already PERFECT.