Fitness & Weight Loss
Four Docs, One Dilemma
Slim, Fast - Four ways to lose those pesky final 5 pounds
Five pounds isn’t attractive any way you look at it—whether it’s 17,500 calories, 14-1/2 pints of Chunky Monkey, or the handful of flesh hanging over your waistband. While there’s no shortage of weight-loss advice promising to help you ditch that extra baggage, the only way to get there is through good old-fashioned hard work.
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Do yoga and abs will come.
Well-Armed
Sculpt lean arms
No more whining about your pathetic spaghetti-noodle arms or underarm flab that you jiggle in front of the mirror to torture yourself. In these arm strengtheners, "you're moving and lifting your own body weight with grace,'' says Michael Lechonczak, cofounder of Intelligent Yoga in New York City. And soon, with power.
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Increase your back strength with these yoga poses
You may not be able to locate your lats, much less isolate and engage them on the spot. No worries, because yoga can. The right poses hit all the right spots. The secret to unbeatable back strength is in this sequence.
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"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.
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