Side lifts are great workouts to tone your body for the beach. Learn more about side lifts from our fitness instructor in this free video.
Sue Conrad is a personal trainer with a certification from the American Council on Exercise (ACE) since 2001. She currently teaches cardiovascular kickboxing for clients of various fitness levels.
In our next clip, we are going to do a side lift combo. So we are going to come back down to the sand. This is going to help tone up our legs so we can look good in our swimsuit. We are going to get down in the prime position. Now, if you have wrist or shoulder issues, you can always come down on your forearms. If you don't, you can go ahead and put your palms down and lift to the side. Come back to center and lift to the rear. That is going to be one rep. Okay, now lift to the side. Stabilize that core. Now lift to the rear. Try to feel this in your quadricepts your glutes, your calves and your hamstrings. So, slow and controlled. Now for more of a challenge you just suspend your let in between each partial rep. Okay, now lift to the side, extend back into the rear. Now adjust trying sets of ten to fifteen. Both sides of course. Two to three times. You are going to lift, extend and lift again. You are going to lift again to the side. Bring that leg back in. Lift to the rear and lift again. Now if you need to rest in between, you can lift to the side. Put that leg down and extend back and lift again. But for more of a challenge, we want to keep that legs suspended. So, we are going to squeeze opening up those hip flexors and extending the leg back and lift again. Nice slow and controlled
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