Core Training: Oblique Lifts Video

The obliques or abs can be worked every day and should be worked to the point of fatigue. Watch this daily core training routine for the obliques by a professional fitness trainer in this video on health and fitness.

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Exercise for the mid and lower core area
Shoulder blades off the floor at all times
Neck slightly tucked toward chest
Exhale as the legs lower
Strong core = strong back

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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 everyone, I'm Grace Lazenby and welcome to core training. Today we are going to work the obliques. So go ahead and come down to your left elbow and you are going to line your body up in one straight line and lift up nice and tall. Make sure that you don't sag in that left shoulder. Your right hand is going to go right behind your head, keep your upper body really still while you lift your lower body. So we are going to take it half time for the first set. You are going to go: One, two, down and lower and up and two good here we go - tempo. And up up and lower. this is a really subtle move but it looks like you are working your lower body but actually what is happening is you are initiating your obliques. And up up and lower. Now what I want you to also think about is pulling the right shoulder blade down. Imagine your right shoulder blade is coming down to meet your oblique or to meet your hip bone. Good, again and up up and lower. Good and don't forget to breathe. Excellent! Let's go four more everybody and then we are going to switch sides. Four, and three keep your chest tall, last one and relax. Now I want you to take a nice easy stretch to stretch out the obliques before I go on to the other side. Excellent. Let's go to the other side line yourself up. Remember you are going to come in one straight line. You are going to come onto the right elbow, right hand up and lift. And lift. Good. Now I want you to try and exhale as that leg lifts and then inhale as the top leg lowers. Beautiful. And up, up and lower. so you can actually do these every single day. Remember you can work your abs every day. You have to work them to the point of fatigue. good, let's do four more. Four, three, that's two and one and relax. Good now come up. Don't forget to take that nice long stretch to elongate all the way through the waist, come on back. Really excellent work you guys. That was your oblique exercise for the day. Core training, I'm Grace Lazenby.

Core Training: Oblique Lifts Video

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