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Liz here from LizDiAlto.com as always teaching you how to get a tighter
body on a tight schedule.
Today I’m coming to you from my favorite track in New York City, East
River Park. You might remember this from my Armpit Fat Video. If
you’ve never seen that, you can click right here to watch it. But it is chilly
here in New York City but even so, I wanted to come out here to give you
a taste of my favorite kind of workout to get rid of love handles and really
tone and define your abs.
You’re probably expecting me to do all these ab-specific movements, but
that is not going to be what I tell you today at all. So got ya! My favorite
workout to get rid of love handles and really define your abs is actually a
sprint workout. So if I was at a track like this, what I usually do is I sprint
100 meters and then I walk the straightaway for my active rest. Or if I’m
on a treadmill I usually just sprint for about 20 to 30 seconds and then
walk for about 45 seconds to a minute.
What I like to do before I even get into the sprints are some exercises to
warm up my legs and really loosen up my joints. So I’ll show you a
couple of those so you can try it for your own sprint workout.
I like to warm up my hip flexors by doing five to ten of these on each side
where I press forward through my hip and then lean back to also get the
hamstring stretch here at the same time. So I’ll do five to ten of those on
each side. If I need balance, I will lean on something and then I’ll do
some swing kicks like that. I don’t have anything to lean on right now so
I’m a little wobbly. I’ll do those on each side.
And then I’ll do some over-under squats. So I’ll bring my hands behind
my head, step like I’m stepping over something, squat down nice and low,
and step together and go back and forth. Do about 15 to 20 of those on
each side, again to warm up my hips and my legs.
And then last but not least I’ll either do these in place or I’ll do some
walking, long lunges and by long lunges I mean I take a nice, big step
and straighten out my back leg, push up off my heel. And you can either
alternate or do these while you’re walking.
The purpose here is not for leg strengthening. Again, it’s really to stretch
out, get our hip flexors ready, get our joints prepared, and get some blood
flowing through our legs before we sprint.
So then what I usually like to do is I’ll do two half-speed sprints, then
I’ll do two sprints at about three-quarter speed, and then I’ll do anywhere
from six to ten sprints going all out full speed as fast as I can.
So if you’re a member, what I’ve done in the Members area is I’ve posted
a couple sample pdf’s of sprint workouts that you can do either at a track
if you have access outdoors like this, or that you can do on the treadmill if
that’s what you have access to at your gym.
If you’re not a member and you want to get access to those workouts,
there’s a link below the video and you can actually try it out for two weeks
for just $1. You can go in there and download everything and then you
don’t even have to stay if you don’t want to but now it’s your turn.
So if you like this video and you thought it was helpful, go ahead and
click ‘like’ wherever that little ‘like’ button is. If you have a question
about the sprint workout or you want to tell me in the comments below the
video what you like to do to get rid of love handles and define your abs,
go ahead and leave a comment there and I’ll see you next time!