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How to Use Ankle Weights During Pregnancy
Many women exercise throughout their pregnancy. If you are used to working out three or four days a week, you don’t have to stop just because you are expecting a child. Exercise provides an avenue for stress release, helps you stay fit and allows you to maintain the routine you followed before you got pregnant. Using ankle weights during pregnancy can give you a better workout as long as you stay attuned to your body and don’t overdo it.
Can Women Firm Their Breasts by Lifting Weights?
The female breast is a subject of intense contemplation by both men and women. Breasts serve the natural function of producing milk to nourish our young, but they represent so much more, particularly when it comes to attitudes regarding femininity and sexuality. Contemporary Western culture celebrates large breasts as an ideal. As a result many women express dissatisfaction with the size of their breasts and seek natural means, such as exercise, to make their breasts larger and firmer.
Exercises for Women With Hand-Held Weights
You may not have space for a home gym with a lot of fancy equipment, but you can probably make room for a simple set of hand weights to help you tone your body and build muscle. Even if you can lift much heavier weights, start out with a light weight set of dumbbells, no more than 5 lbs each. As you work your way through the exercises, those 5 lbs may begin to feel like 50.
Working With Weights to Help Relieve Stress
Working with weights and weight-bearing exercise build muscle and help prevent disease. Additionally, working with weights and weight-bearing exercise such as walking or running help combat the stress we experience daily.
With Gyms Closed, Here’s How To Create (An Affordable) Home Gym
Covid-19 hit the fitness industry hard. Gyms have been closed since mid-March and in many states they will be in the last phase of reopening. As a personal trainer and group fitness instructor, I have been inundated with texts from clients, family and friends asking how they can work out effectively at home. I want…