How to do the Romanian in Playground Fitness

Last Update: March 12, 2009

Video By: Expert Village

How to do the Romanian in playground fitness in this free playground health video.

About this Author

Tina Anderson is a personal trainer. She created playground fitness routines based on workouts for moms, grandparents and other caregivers taking children to the park. Unique and creative, Anderson is working on a book and television series based on her fitness routines. She also has a lot of voice-over and radio hosting experience when it comes to children, including The Wave PSA for Children's Miracle Network, a Telethon KTLA TV radio spot, Sawdust Festival and promo's for KSBR Radio in the Orange county area.

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Video Transcript

You know, there is an exercise that always challenges me in the gym every single time. It's embarrassing, I'm always falling over. So, if I fall over, you just know that I'm going to do it for you anyway. So, it's the Romanian but with a single leg. I've got weights because I think it's easier almost to balance with the weights. So let's give this a shot. You know what the Romanian looks like. Now I'm going to take this here with the single, I'm going to keep my body like a board, so I'm not arching. I'm going to start to look down and notice, I'm coming up, I'm coming up, I'm going to tighten up and I'm going to come back down. Now, in the beginning stages, maybe you do this. If you start to feel it in your low back, take a break because you will kind of feel it because your butt muscle is flexed. My butt muscle on the other side is flexed. So, in fact, let me switch and do it this way for you. Tighten my butt muscle, come down, come down, come down, come back up. Single leg, you're trying for - wow, I'm really impressing myself, I haven't even fallen - you're trying for eight to fifteen on each leg. As a beginner, maybe five. Anything you can do with these, work up to them because they are very difficult, but once again, the difficult ones are the effective ones.

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