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I started this one doing 10 of them back to back in three different sets. Give it a shot! Great for the booty, too!

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I do 4 sets of 30 about 3 times a week. They help me keep my curves in check even though I’m losing weight at the same time.

Be happy, be healthy!

Building A Home Workout Routine: The Side Bend is a post from: A Black Girl's Guide To Weight Loss. Thanks for reading!

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So, for the legs and abs, I present the double leg lifts! I’m not very familiar with Pilates (although I do practice Yoga), but the moves are challenging and leave you feeling like you really accomplished something!

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Here are the straight leg crunches I do. I started off doing ten crunches… then 3 sets of ten… then I went up from there. Give ‘em a shot!

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Having said that, this exercise here kicks my butt.

How many should you do? Honestly, I can’t say. I started out with 3 sets of ten. I’d do ten (5 on each side,) then breathe for ten seconds… ten more, take a breather… then ten more.

Give it a shot, and let me know how it works out for you!

Building a Home Workout Routine: Trunk Rotations is a post from: A Black Girl's Guide To Weight Loss. Thanks for reading!

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Vertical Jumping Jacks is a post from: A Black Girl's Guide To Weight Loss. Thanks for reading!

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I didn’t even know what a “core” was, and I told him such. I had this awkward look on my face like, “This might be a stupid question, but.. what is a core?” He grabbed my hand and said, “There are no stupid questions in my house!” As he went on to say that the core is the entire batch of muscles that controls our midsections, I promptly told him, “Oh, I don’t have any abs. I mean, come on – I have to grab the top of the car in order to lift myself out of it.”

He laughed so hard at me, I felt like getting mad, LOL.

“We all have abs, Erika. Sure, we might have different levels of strength, but we all have them.”

I felt like telling him a giant “Whatever,” but I didn’t. Instead, I just listened as he offered up tons of exercises and tips for me to try to help “get some abs.” Here is one of those exercises. Hopefully, they’ll help you as much as they’ve helped me.

There you have it – a nice, challenging, simple method for working out your core. You don’t have to do a thousand of ‘em, you don’t have to do a hundred, either. Going from zero to 20 is challenging enough. Try whatever you can, and when they start feeling too easy, let natural progression tell you to try doing more. Be happy, be healthy, be good!

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I know that my biggest thing was getting over how silly I felt I might look trying to workout at home. As a friend said, “Some people need to go to a gym to feel as though they’ve accomplished anything.” I can’t necessarily say that this was how I felt, but I know that whatever it was was costing me my health in the process, and I needed to get it together!

The first of our exercises is something that will help with stretches as much as they will help with the booty area (yes, we will be giving the booty extra special attention!) as well as the upper thighs. Check out this hip extensions clip brought to us by the folks at expertvillage.com!

Building A Home Workout Routine: Hip Extensions is a post from: A Black Girl's Guide To Weight Loss. Thanks for reading!

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