Get Britney's Stomach... (General Fitness Tips)

Member Name: scottish20

Product:	General Fitness Tips
Date:	31/05/02 (2163 review reads)
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Advantages: easy, not time consuming

Disadvantages: not as good as proper exercise

They are all out there, skinny and beautiful - Britney Spears, Calista Flockhart, Jennifer Anniston.... The list is endless!! But they aren't real women, they have dieticians and personal trainers and real women have 9-5 jobs and cake shops to avoid!

Wrong!!! Anyone can do it. Little things make all the difference.

OK, so I am a cross country runner - I enjoy exercise. But I acknowledge there are lots of women out there who hate it. So how to lose weight/get fit without exercising is quite easy - although to really do it properly, excerise is a must, so get that dusty cycle bike out of the closet and put on your sports kit....

But in the mean time, here are a few ideas to keep active, from the minute you wake up til the moment you fall back to sleep....

* get up early, this means you are active for longer and burning more calories
* put your alarm clock across the other side of the room so you have to jump out of bed to turn it off...that goes for you mobile phone and get rid of your swivel desk chair, when you need something get up and walk. And stop using the remote control!
* have a good, simple breakfast...this speeds up you motabolism
* wear light clothing, if you are slightly cold then you body burns calories heating you up
* don't exercise on an empty stomach as your body will start storing energy in preparation and that's when you put on weight
* whilst sitting at your desk, straighten and bend your legs, slowly or clunch and unclench your buttocks to tone up the old bum
* When carrying your shopping bags, slightly bend your elbows so you are carrying the full weight
* run up the stairs
* whilst cooking the tea, do 20 bicep curls with each tin of beans
* When hoovering dance about to some music
* don't eat a big meal and then go to sleep...this is how sumo wrestlers get so enormous! In fact, don't eat anything after 8pm
* I also heard somewhere that
carrots and celary take up as many calories to digest as they provide...it that's true, then they are good foods to snack on

See, it's easy to increase your daily activity levels without really trying too hard!!

And now, as promised, here are some exercises that Britney herself does....

* the old faithful sit up...don't sit all the way up, just get your head a few inches of the ground and hold for 3 seconds
* side-ways sit ups...same thing, but bend you legs over to one side so you are working the muscles down one side of your stomach.
* Lie on your back and cycle your legs, holding it for 2 seconds when each leg is outstreched

Britney does 600-1000 sit ups a day....I do 60 and I think that's enough! I got all the Britney info from a magazine, I'm not a close friend or anything!!

So there we have it, my alternative guide to keeping active, fit and healthy , but as I already said, true exercise is really the only way to do it!

And next week, I'll tell you how to get Kylie's bum......

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