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Lazy fitness, losing weight in five minutes without stopping from household chores
Popular YouTube blogger Ekaterina Ilinykh believes that grueling workouts are not needed to lose weight. 5-10 minutes is enough, and you will be in shape.
The Eksmo publishing house publishes the book “Lazy fitness of the actress, model and presenter Ekaterina Ilinykh”. The author knows by herself that it is not easy for a modern woman to find time for the gym, and therefore has developed her own method with which you can keep fit in between times, devoting 5-10 minutes to workouts.
We suggest trying out simple exercises that will help you stay slim, flexible, stay old and avoid health problems.
- Feet shoulder-width apart, looking straight ahead, chin raised. We make a slight turn of the head to the right, then to the left. 12 times in each direction.
- We do not change the position. We make light tilts of the head to the sides. Also 12 times.
- The situation is the same. We make light tilts of the head forward and slightly tilt it back. We are not zealous. A slight nod of your head! 12 times in each direction.
- Legs shoulder width apart, arms along the body. The back is straight, the chest and chin are raised. Raise your shoulders to your ears. We lower our shoulders. And so 12 times.
- The position is the same, arms extended in front of you at chest level. We make crossing movements with our hands – scissors 12 times.
- We remain in the same position. The arms are extended to the sides. Fingers are gathered into fists. We make circular movements, flexing the wrists in one direction, then in the opposite direction. 12 times in each direction.
- Then, spread our arms to the sides. The forearms remain motionless, we bend our arms from the elbow, making circular movements towards ourselves and away from ourselves. 12 times in each direction.
- We keep the position. We make circular movements with our hands from the shoulder. 12 times back, while breathing deeply, and 12 times forward.
- Excellent! We relaxed, shook our hands.
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- Legs shoulder width apart, arms along the body. We make smooth bends to the sides alternately, trying to reach with our fingers to the level of the knees. This is how we stretch the oblique muscles, burn fat on the sides. We make 12 bends in each direction.
- Now the hands are behind the head in the lock. We make two short bends in each direction (12 times). The belly is always pulled in, the back is straight!
- We change position, legs are wider than shoulders. With the left hand, we stretch over the top to the right side, making a deep tilt. Then – in the other direction. Repeat 12 times in each direction.
- Everything is the same as in the previous exercise, only now we stretch our hand in front of us in the opposite direction. 12 times each.
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For posture and flexible spine
- Legs are wider than shoulders. Hands on the belt. We tilt forward parallel to the floor, extend our arms in front of us. The back is straight, we look straight. We return for a second to the starting position. And we tilt back, spreading our arms to the sides. We do not throw our neck back deeply, the head looks to the side. 12 times in each direction.
- Legs are wider than shoulders. We tilt forward, hands in front of us, then a deep tilt to the floor, with our palms touching the floor, the next tilt is even deeper, we try to put our palms behind our feet. And we return to the starting position. There are 12 deep slopes in total.
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- Hands on the belt. One leg is supporting, the other is bent at the knee, while weights, we make turns with the foot in one direction 12 times. Then in the opposite direction 12 times. We repeat everything from the other leg.
- Feet shoulder width apart. Arms bent, hands on shoulders. With the left knee, we stretch to the right elbow. Then, with the right knee, we stretch to the left elbow. 12 times on each leg.
- Now let’s go to the shower and have breakfast!