Better Than Pilates

Better Than Pilates

Better Than Pilates, It's Pirates - The Four Step Plan to Lose the Bulge and Reshape Your Booty
Well shiver me timbers, I hope you enjoyed the recent "International Talk Like a Pirate Day!"
You know, the pirate life was not all fun and games. Looting and pillaging took a surprising amount of energy, stamina, and agility. After extensive research, and a few rum cocktails, I've recently uncovered a secret pirate manuscript detailing how pirates used to shake off the barnacles and get ready for plunder season.
I call this 4-step workout Pilates er, I mean Pirates.
To get rid of that unsightly bilge, simply do the following four exercises each day before swabbing down the poop-deck.

Walk the Plank. On yer mat, git in plank position. While keeping your core tight with no break at the waist, take 4 baby steps forward with yer feet and hands, then 4 steps back. Repeat 4 times.
The Downward Salty Dog. From plank position, walk yer boots forward, raising yer tailbone skyward. Try to keep yer arms in line with yer torso and press yer shoulders t'ward the floor. Hold fer one minute.
Crazy Pieces of Eight (or Treasure Curls). With a large bottle of rum in each hand (or hook), bring them up until yer elbows be at 90 degree angles. Keeping the port arm there, lower and raise the starboard arm eight times. Repeat for the other side.
Hull Squats (pronounced skw-arrgh-ts). These are critical for any seafarer desiring a fine pirate booty! With yer back against the side o' yer ship, drop down until yer legs arrgh at a 90 degree angle. Hold that position until ye can no longer stand or ye passes out, whichever comes first.

Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables and do yer Pirates routine daily to prevent scurvy, and keep yer buckles swarshing and yer scallys wagging fer many, many adventures to come.
Dr. Kevin J. Kane, The Fit Doc, is a practicing physician and independent Beachbody coach. Using a variety of fun home fitness and incentive programs, he shows people how to lose weight, get in shape, and win money in the process. To learn how you can join the fight against obesity and type 2 diabetes as one of our online fitness coaches see http://www.TheFitDoc.com