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Chin ups are an excellent exercise for increasing upper body strength and lower back strength as you can also twist as well ie bring your legs and knees up 90 deg in front and legs tucked underneath. Twist toward both sides. Hold and back again. This will really stetch your lower back and strengthen your upper body.
Two simple things. Don't eat a lot of carbs in the evening before going to bed. Try and eat more protein - eggs? In these summer evenings go for a walk in the evening after supper to aid digestion and burn off cals.
In terms of exercises - stretching arms, neck, rotating upper body, neck press, curls for biceps, chin press.
Crunches for abdominals on floor feet hooked under a bed, arms behind one's head, diagonal right elbow to let knee and vice versa increase repitions in groups of x10, do 50 -100 in intervals. Also straight crunches with arms behind head x 50 and crunches again lying on one's back just slightly lifting shoulders off the floor tensing abdominal muscles and stretching both arms to your heals legs bent half folded. Do x60 or more. Legs out in front of you gently bounce your legs on the floor to loosen your muscles.
Stand up, feet shoulder width apart and rotate hips clockwise and counter clockwise as if spinning a large hoop keeping legs straight hands on hips x10 in each direction. Then bend knees feet slightly apart and actually rotate hips as rotate your lower back in a 360 deg rotation. Hands on hips do x10 in each direction. Do previous hip exercise again to loosen hips both directions.
Lower body stretching sitting on floor with legs stretched out in front, touch toes and figers over tops of toes strectching the hamstrings, bend each leg to the side folded up and stretch down one leg, over the other leg and at 45 degs, gently rock. Fold eack leg with heal into groin and press down on inside of knee again several times gently rocking on the inside of the knee. sitting on the floor fold legs in so heals are in your groin press on inside of knees with your elbows on the inside of your legs pressing them down stretching the inside muscles.
Press ups on knuckles and elbows close to your side x30 each in intervals of three, squat thrusts x40 -50 or how ever many you can manage. Be sure to do them properly though. Breath properly.
Stretch forward on one knee getting your hips low keeping rear leg stretched behind but relaxed. Do the other knee. Stretch between your legs and down to each side toward your foot.
Do some running.
Two simple things. Don't eat a lot of carbs in the evening before going to bed. Try and eat more protein - eggs? In these summer evenings go for a walk in the evening after supper to aid digestion and burn off cals.
In terms of exercises - stretching arms, neck, rotating upper body, neck press, curls for biceps, chin press.
Crunches for abdominals on floor feet hooked under a bed, arms behind one's head, diagonal right elbow to let knee and vice versa increase repitions in groups of x10, do 50 -100 in intervals. Also straight crunches with arms behind head x 50 and crunches again lying on one's back just slightly lifting shoulders off the floor tensing abdominal muscles and stretching both arms to your heals legs bent half folded. Do x60 or more. Legs out in front of you gently bounce your legs on the floor to loosen your muscles.
Stand up, feet shoulder width apart and rotate hips clockwise and counter clockwise as if spinning a large hoop keeping legs straight hands on hips x10 in each direction. Then bend knees feet slightly apart and actually rotate hips as rotate your lower back in a 360 deg rotation. Hands on hips do x10 in each direction. Do previous hip exercise again to loosen hips both directions.
Lower body stretching sitting on floor with legs stretched out in front, touch toes and figers over tops of toes strectching the hamstrings, bend each leg to the side folded up and stretch down one leg, over the other leg and at 45 degs, gently rock. Fold eack leg with heal into groin and press down on inside of knee again several times gently rocking on the inside of the knee. sitting on the floor fold legs in so heals are in your groin press on inside of knees with your elbows on the inside of your legs pressing them down stretching the inside muscles.
Press ups on knuckles and elbows close to your side x30 each in intervals of three, squat thrusts x40 -50 or how ever many you can manage. Be sure to do them properly though. Breath properly.
Stretch forward on one knee getting your hips low keeping rear leg stretched behind but relaxed. Do the other knee. Stretch between your legs and down to each side toward your foot.
Do some running.