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From:  "Jocelyn Gooch" <jocelyngooch@h...>
Date:  Sat Apr 15, 2000  7:46 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] Avoid Frustration While Starting Out


Thank you!!! I'm off to the carpeted living room floor soon! But first ...
20 more vocalist posts! I'll bet sitting at this computer really gets in the
way of firm bellies!

Jocelyn

>From: leskayc@a...
>Reply-To: vocalist-temporary@egroups.com
>To: vocalist-temporary@egroups.com
>Subject: Re: [vocalist-temporary] Avoid Frustration While Starting Out
>Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:30:48 EDT
>
>In a message dated 04/15/2000 12:46:04 PM Central Daylight Time,
>jocelyngooch@h... writes:
>
><< So, what are your teacher's ab exercises? I'd love to lose some of my
>post
> baby flaccidness. That lower tummy really takes a beating.
> >>
>I lie on my back on the floor, knees bent. Then I tilt the head back so
>that
>the chin is pointing to the ceiling and raise my shoulders off the
>floor-doesn't have to be much movement, but you really feel it in your
>lower
>abdomen. This bothers my neck, but I do 10 reps anyway. The absolute
>best
>is one my teenage daughter learned in at a Flag Corps camp: Lie on the
>back with legs extended and toes pointed. Slowly raise the legs, then
>slowly
>lower them, stopping about 3 inches from the floor. Hold this as long as
>possible. You can play around here-opening and closing the legs, taking
>them
>up and down just a little bit, placing one foot on top of the other and
>sort
>of "bouncing " them up and down a little bit, etc. The goal is to keep the
>legs off of the floor and to use your abs to do the work. It took about a
>month for me to see any improvement and my baby is going to be 13 in
>October!
> None of this is fun, but it really did help!
>
>Leslie

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