Fitness & Weight Loss
Butt Nothing
By Kristen Dollard, Photographs by Michael E.
"Don't
look for results the first time. Muscles will get worked, your calories
will be burned," says Mark Blanchard of Power Progressive Yoga in Los Angeles of these posterior postures. Come out
of each pose when you start struggling: "You're defeating the practice
if you're struggling and imbalanced, because you're trying to create
symmetry in the body," he says.
Chair (Utkatasana)
Stand
in Mountain pose: Arms at sides, sternum lifted. Bend your knees
deeply. Squeeze your inner thighs together and straighten your arms,
lifting them above your head and stretching your fingertips toward the
sky. Accentuate the lift in your arms and chest so your upper spine is
in a slight backbend. Tuck your pelvis. "Hold that for as long as you
can keep a smile on your face," Blanchard says. "If the smile left your
face, you've left your yoga pose." Shoot for 10 breaths. Feel that
butt-burn?
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