Shapely Legs: Ice Skaters Video

Ice skater exercises on the ballet bar are another excellent way to tone your lower body. Learn how to get shapely legs by doing ice skater exercises properly from a celebrity trainer in this workout video.

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Balance
Semi-circle leg around
Hold for effectiveness
Works outer & inner thigh

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Grace Lazenby is a celebrity trainer and co-founder of iTRAIN.com. Grace has a degree in exercise physiology and she is certified with the Physical Mind Institute. iTRAIN.com is your own "Hollywood personal trainer right in your pocket." Each audio and video workout consists of an elite Hollywood Trainer or World Champion Athlete mixed with original music to satisfy your workout needs. iTRAIN provides more than 275 workouts in its library ranging from treadmill to elliptical, cycling, strength training, and many more.

Hi. I'm Grace Lazenby and welcome to Shapely Legs. Today, I going to take you to an outer thigh exercise called ice skaters and we're going to add little extra hip extension with that. So, if you're at home, you can grab a chair or a body bar or if you have something to hold onto a ledge, I have a ballet bar. I'm going to just rest my right hand on to the ballet's bar, bend my right leg and then I'm going to lift up, hold. Okay from here, you can keep your left hand on your hip for balance or take out to the side. We're going to start with what's called ice skaters. So from here, what you going to do is just semicircle that left leg around and hold. Good! And then semicircle back, hold. Good. And then semicircle around, and back and hold. Here we go, tempo, and one, and back. Now, add your arms if you'd like; if not, you can keep them exactly where they are, and around and hold, and back and hold, and around and hold, and back. Good you guys. Two more, around and hold, and then this works the outer and inner thigh. Last one, you could now hold it back and this is going to take a little balance. You're going to bend forward holding on to your bar. Take your left leg back. Your left arm can go out, hold and lift, and lift. Good work right into the back of that glutes. Excellent! So again, you're working your whole body here guys, abs, legs, upper body, four and three, and two, and one. Good. Now, pull a bit. Excellent! Bring it in. you can take a nice easy stretch if that feels good, and then roll it up and let's go the other side. Again, set yourself up, then the left knee, right leg back, hold. Good. Why don't you give me that ice skater? You're going to come in and hold and back, and in and hold, and back, and in and hold. Good! Four more, here we go, in and hold and back, keep those glutes tight, and back. Good! Two more, in and hold and back. This is your last one, hold. Good. Now, hands at the hips, again, find your balance. You can keep your right hand on your waist or extend it. Here we go, and lift. Again, connect your body as a whole. Your abs are in, squeeze that tush to protect your lower back. Excellent everybody! Four, three, two, hold, inhale, come on up, take a nice easy hip stretch, and release. Good! And that is your Shapely Legs workout for today. I'm Grace Lazenby. I'll see you next time.

Shapely Legs: Ice Skaters Video

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