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This is how Michelle Obama gets abs of steel at 55
Fitness
The former First Lady of the United States has revealed what is the exercise that enhances the core
How many times have we heard that saying “Sometimes I don’t feel like doing sports, but the feeling of welfare What it does to me once it is done is incalculable ». You usually hear it from people around you, fashion icons, influencers, actresses … And even the very same Michelle Obama it says. To former First Lady of the United States It is difficult for him to play sports, but when it comes time to put on his trainers, top, leggings and gather his hair, he completely changes his mind and laziness disappears to give way to motivation. This is how he wanted to share it in his Instagram account with an image where he shows the marked and worked abs that he has under his (almost always) formal clothing.
Defender of social causes and promoter of the “Let’s Move!” Campaign, the busy schedule of Michelle Obama She always has a space reserved to carry out her weekly fitness routine and maintain the enviable figure that she has at 55 years of age. “It doesn’t always feel good when playing sports. But once I have done it, I am always glad I went to the gym, “he confessed on Instagram to his more than 34 million followers, while showing off his abs, carrying out strides with weight, in this case fitballs. What do you want to enhance with this exercise? Toning your buttocks and tightening your core. In addition, your arms, by keeping them up at all times, acquire muscle. In this way, the woman of Barack Obama, as other celebrities like Naomi Campbell have already done, brings the public some of the best kept secrets: how to stay in shape.
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How to Stride Correctly
Although strides are one of the basic exercises to subject the body to a workout anywhere (your home, the park, a gym …), it does not mean that you have to pay less attention to the movements. In the case of Michelle Obama, which is carried out with weight to increase the difficulty and, therefore, the benefits, stand with your feet together and your hands up, lifting a medicine ball, dumbbells or any object that is heavy for you. advance one of your legs so that the thigh stay parallel to the ground and stretch the back, hold about ten seconds and go back to the initial step. Repeat the exercise with the opposite leg, and so on as many times as you like.
There is no fitness discipline that can resist
But the exercises that Michelle Obama performs hand in hand with his personal trainer Cornell McClellan They are not only based on functional exercises: he dares with boxing, rope, the “deadbug” or weight lifting, among others. The also writer, has declared in her book, «Becoming», That exercising frequently helps her maintain a healthy balance between her professional life and her role as a mother and advocates sports exercise from the hands of experts:« In my opinion, exercises like these should be done with a personal trainer or an expert nearby to make sure you’re doing the exercises correctly, ”he confesses. Yoga, to disconnect and gain flexibility, is also part of your routine. As a last note, Michelle Obama advises to hydrate once the training is finished.