Strength and toning exercises have many health and fitness benefits. They burn fat and increase muscle mass, creating a slender new you. Your body becomes stronger, allowing you to perform tasks more easily than you could without exercise. Exercise strengthens your cardiovascular system and improves metabolic functioning. With regular exercise, your body will function well and look good too.
Zumba Toning
The Zumba Toning instructor combines basic Zumba fitness moves with a toning stick to strengthen and tone your muscles. The movements and rhythms are set to fast-paced, entertaining music. Zumba dance moves will be interspersed with sculpting and toning exercises that emphasize the use of a toning stick. Use of this stick improves your movement and helps you focus on toning different body parts including your arms, thighs and butt.
Exercise Ball
Exercise ball class routines strengthen muscles throughout your body, including core muscles. A beginning routine includes movements and stretches that focus on all areas of your body. Begin by working your legs, and use the ball as you perform both squats and calf raises. You can work on the core and incorporate a plank, and abdominal and lower back exercises. Move on to pushups, and inner and outer thigh exercises. Finish off with twists, and hamstring and glute moves.
Tone Zone
This 20-minute routine tones and strengthens your muscles. The class does three sets of 12 for each exercise. Begin with a squat and bicep curl. Next, do an elevated crab walk, then move on to a rotating lunge and shoulder press. Keep working your arms and perform triceps extensions before you move to plank raises to work your core. Then incorporate knee raises, side crunches, and a Swiss thigh and fly exercise.
Total Body Toning
These five exercises can tone and strengthen your entire body with a few simple steps. The instructor will begin with a squat and leg lift, and you will use a chair for support. Next, you perform 30 shoulder rotations. The iron jumping jack incorporates a little cardio into the class. The scissor crunch and plank reach tone the abs and core to complete the routine.
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