10 Tips: How to get in shape without sweating by Valerie Vauthey

Tip #1: The *Brazilian move*.

The good thing about this move is that you don't need to go a gym to do it, you don't even need to find time in your day.

Why?

Because you will do this move while you brush your teeth!

How does it work:

Standing straight in your bathroom, bend your knees slightly.

Tilt your hips forward while contracting them, then pull them back.

Remember to make a very strong squeeze when you finish the forward move.

As you brush your teeth a minimum of twice a day, that's 6 minutes a day of Brazilian move.

Along with a healthy eating, this will guarantee you will get a nice rear for this summer, yeah!

Tip #2: Use your Hands!

There are some chores you would be better off doing by hand!

For instance, washing dishes by hand will burn 78 calories per half hour.....

Knowing that a pound is about 3,500 calories, and assuming you will wash dishes half an hour over 45 days, you will have lost 1 pound without knowing it....(translated on a year, this amounts to about 8 pounds!)

Tip #3: How to get your 60 minutes of accumulated exercise a day….

The General Surgeon's orders are to get 60 minutes of accumulated exercise per day (this can be sliced up into 6 small walks without any problem).

Beside burning calories, when you walk you will build the big muscles of your lower body.

Muscle tissue uses up more calories to maintain than fat, even at rest.

Again, you don't have to go for a 60 minute walk if you don't fee like it.

You can slice it up into 4x15 minute walk:

-1- one at home when you wake up (will also help wake up even more :o)

-2- two at lunch time to go to your lunch place and to come back (just select a place that's 15 minutes away from your office)

-3- one in the middle of the afternoon to help you remain focus until the end of the day.

Tip #4: Manage your food cravings by being proactive!!!

Your body produces endorphins when you do aerobic exercise -- which means getting your heart rate up for at least 20 mn.

Aerobic exercise produces endorphins, body chemicals that induce euphoric and pleasurable feelings. These are the same chemicals produced in response to eating fat/sweet foods.

Tip #5: Improve your posture

This is a great exercise to improve your posture hereby making you look great when you walk, when you are on the beach, when you enter a business meeting room.

On a yoga mat, stand straight.

Breath a few times: inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale slowly.

Tuck your toes under and push back into a low squat, with fingertips lightly touching the floor.

Drop your chin so it's relaxed toward the chest.

Slowly rise from the squat position by pushing your heels toward the floor until your torso hangs froward and down.

Keep the knees slightly bent and aligned over the center of each foot.

Breathe, relax the upper body, and hang like a rag dool.

Inhale in that position.

Exhale as you engage your powerhouse and slowly roll up to a standing position.

When you are standing, straighten your knees with your arms relaxed at your sides.

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BIO:

Valerie Vauthey is the founder of http://www.myprivatecoach.com and the president of the Silicon Valley Coachville Chapter. She brings long years of successful experience in the areas of Personal Coaching, Weight Loss, Financial Coaching, Time Management, Motivational Techniques and Behavioral Science.

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