Page 52 - Kay Handyside - Fat to Flat Belly

Exercise Description Target
Face down chest stretch or against the wall
Lying flat on your front reach your arm out to the side , hand in line with your shoulder.
Very gently roll your body over onto the outstretched arm . Stretching the chest and the shoulder
This can also be done against a wall.
Change sides
Chest and shoulder
Cat and cow
Hands and knees , hands underneath the shoulder, knees underneath the hips
Spread your fingers out on the floor
Push through the palms of your handstand round your back - arching like a cat. Tuck your tailbone under and your head, The opposite of this - then press your stomach down towards the floor - head up to the sky and butt up to the sky. Keep rotating this stretch
Stretch es the lower back in the cat or arched position .
Great ab exercise for the cow position - pressing your abs down to the floor
Tricep stretch
Standing tall reach up with one hand as high as you can and then down the back - press on the elbow pointing up to the air with the other hand.
Reach the finger tips down between the shoulder blades Change sides
Stretching down the back of the arm - triceps
Bicep stretch
Reach the hand in front fingers pointing down at the floor and pull the tips back gently with the other hand .
This can also be done against a wall.
Change arms
Biceps - front of the arm
Standing tall clasping the hands behind the back pull shoulders down and away from the ears , forward bend
Standing tall clasp your hands behind your back interlock your fingers and pull your shoulder blades down and away from your ears.
Maintain this position while you do a forward bend at the waist. Let the hands fall down hang down - relax and uncurl to standing again
Shoulders and hamstrings