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Lower Abdominal Sliders

To give your lower abdominals (a key component of your "core" muscles) an extra challenge try this exercise:

  1. Get on all fours, with your shoulders directly over your hands and hips directly over your knees. Consciously hold your stomach in, which require a slight pelvic tilt to avoid arching your back.
  2. Using a "sliders" at the gym, or a paper plate on carpet at home, place both hands on the slider. Maintain your back in a "neutral position-not sagging or rounded, as you push the slider out, away from your body, keeping knees in the same place.
  3. When you reach a point that you can no longer hold the neutral position, return the slider back to the starting "All Fours" position. You will feel the work in your lower abdominals. Repeat ten times.

Jim Flood, MSPT is co-owner of Personally Fit, a fitness/physical therapy center located in Rancho Bernardo. He has been in clinical practice for over 20 years. He can be reached at jflood@ personallyfitonline.com


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