Be Well: How to Improve Your Core Strength 

<div class="block">Improve your core strength with this three minute routine.</div>
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Ok. Right now we have a quick, I don't know if I call it easy but a quick full body workout. So Karina talk me through what we're doing right now. So we're gonna be starting with your squat and overhead breast. You can add bands to this to make it a little bit more challenging or grab a pair of dumbbells or pants. And how many of these do I wanna do? So we can start with like five if you're a beginner, um, maybe 8 to 10 if you're intermediate and 12 to 15, if you're advanced. Now, if I get to 12 or 15 and I'm not, I'm gonna say struggling then, what should I do to make it more difficult? Add some weights, add some bands. Ok. So this is one of those things. That's great because you can kill yourself no matter what your fitness level. 100%. Ok. So our next move is going to be working on that lower half as well. So walk me. Correct. So this is gonna be a good morning and we're gonna combine it with a lunch. I have you put your hands behind your ears. We're gonna Hinch right at the hips. Keep your chest up. I'm proud and we're going to push our hips back when you come back to the bow. Correct? Ok. Think of like closing your car door with your bum. Oh. Right. When we have our hands full of things, mommies, mommies know what I'm talking about. And what we're gonna do is once we're comfortable with this good morning, we're gonna incorporate a real lunch. So you bring in a step back and then back to your shoulder with a part stances. And one of the things I like right now is we have a really good tempo. We're not rushing the move. So we're able to get a little deeper, a little lower. Correct, think of pushing through the heel as you stand back from your lunch. And this is also an exercise that you can incorporate some weights into. So instead of having your hands behind your ears, putting a dumbbell behind your neck. Oh, yeah. Ok. So what's our next exercise? We are going to start going down to the floor for a walk out. So when we do a walk out, we're gonna be walking out with our hands into a plank position. And then when you're in that plank position, hands under your shoulders, we're gonna go for four mountain climbers and then to check up and there we go. So take our hands out, hit the plank, make sure our core is tight, pull the knee. Correct. Beautiful. And then we're gonna do it. How many it is? Are we doing? Same thing if you're a beginner, 5 to 8, intermediate, 8 to 10 and then if you're a pro, bring it up to 15. Ok. And that you're really gonna feel covering your belly, you also kind of feel it in your shoulders as well. And, and last, but not least, and then at least we're gonna be on the floor. You're gonna be doing a push up. It could be modified or on your toes. And then once you bring it down, you're gonna release and bring it up into a Superman. Feel it in your back, flex your boots. Uh, come back up, slow on the way down and reach beautiful job hands underneath your shoulders when you're gonna bring it back up. Beautiful. And you're also taking your legs off the ground. Absolutely. You wanna squeeze flex your entire back. Ok. So then we're gonna go back to the top and do it all again. Second round, let's do it all right. Here we go. Squat overhead press. Here we go. Remember, you can add dumbbells or bands to this one. If it's not challenging enough pressing through the heels, keeping your body weight nice and centered. Awesome. Thanks so much Karina. You're very welcome.