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Room to Room Fitness

Exercise Your Way
Around the House

By Charlene Torkelson, Fitness Expert

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Kitchen Kicks
Let's move to the kitchen for a hot cup of morning tea or an orange juice. While waiting for the water to boil, hold on to the counter with both hands. Just as in the bathroom, the counter height is perfect for support yet allows you to remain upright with your posture. Beginning with the right leg, lift the leg to the side 10 times. The key to leg lifts is to remain erect with your posture and only lift the leg as high as is comfortable without pushing or jerking. The lift should be slow and steady, up and down. Now do 10 lifts to the side with your left leg. This exercise is great for the upper leg and hip areas. Feel free to add more lifts.

Laundry Lifts
One area that seems to lose attention during pregnancy is the upper body – the arms and chest area. Push-ups and pull-ups just don't make it on the list of great pregnancy exercises. One way to tone the upper body is to keep a set of small weights – 2 to 5 pounds each – near your laundry area. While you are waiting that extra few minutes for your load to wash or dry, a few repetitions with these small weights will work wonders for your arms and chest area.

Try these two simple exercises with weights: Holding your weights on your chest, press them upward to a position over the head yet slightly in front so you can look up and see them without leaning the head back. The movement upward is circular as if edging a large balloon. Do one set of eight lifts. When this becomes easy, add another set of eight. Now try a tricep exercise to work the upper arms. Holding one weight with both hands straight above your head – your elbows should be at your ears – lower the weight slowly behind your head. Now lift it back into the position above the head. Raise and lower the weight for a count of eight. Rest and try another set of eight. Please be careful not to bop yourself on the head with the weight! This exercise should feel very good for your upper arms and should give your shoulders a great stretch.


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