
ALLEN TABE BIOGRAPHY Allen Tabe is a longtime
member and volunteer. He is a YMCA Certified Personal Trainer. Allen trains at
the Lyons YMCA in Anderson Township where he also helps staff the Fitness Center
there. If you see him, feel free to comment
on his "TabeTips" or ask him for his help with your fitness routine. Back
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TABE'S AB-OBLIQUE WORKOUT Click
here for a printer friendly version. Do
each exercise 10 times or less to start:
- While
lying on your back with your legs bent and feet flat on floor, slide hands to
knees bringing shoulders up off the floor. Keep the lower back pressed against
the floor.
- With
the entire back in contact with the floor and your legs bent and your feet flat
on the floor about 6 inches from you seat, do alternating heel hits with each
hand.
- Hold
your feet off the floor with your legs bent 90 degrees and reach around your legs
touching your fingers behind your thighs. Keep the lower back pressed against
the floor.
- With
one foot on the floor, cross one leg over the other. Touch the bent knee with
the opposite elbow. Switch legs. Do the other leg and arm the same number of times.
- Hold
both legs straight up and reach around your legs touching your fingers behind
your thighs. Keep the lower back pressed against the floor.
- Lay
with your legs straight out on the floor and both arms straight out over your
head. Alternate bringing the right arm and the left leg together and the left
leg and the right arm together. Try to keep the other arm and leg on the floor
during the process. Keep the lower back pressed against the floor.
- While
lying on your back, hold both legs straight up and together. Hold both arms straight
out over the head. As you open your legs wide, lift your outstretched arms and
shoulders up and reach through your legs. Return to the starting position with
the arms on the floor and the legs closed. Keep the lower back pressed against
the floor.
- Do
a lying down bicycle move keeping your lower back on the floor and touching the
opposite knee and elbow together while keeping the outstretched leg off the floor
about 6 inches and the non touching elbow in contact with the floor.
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