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My favorite standing abs workouts

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Hi! Yes, I have been to Mallorca over the weekend, so I didn't do much exercise and the hotel was excellent, so on coming back I felt the flab...... time to start exercising again. The last few days I have been doing mostly abdominal exercises because I feel that is where I need most exercise. I find that with the pain in my back I actually hate doing crunches. So I have been focusing on standing abs exercising, which are less effective but much better for the back, and you just do some extra to compensate. There are tons of routines on Youtube but many of them are no good. They stand for precious minutes yapping or the exercises are not intense enough or they go way too slow or, like Lumowell, the exercises are ok but the video is so boring you threaten to fall asleep. I will make my own standing abs exercise program in the future - which will be short and intense- but I need more time. So here are a couple of  routines that I really like and would recommend (none ha

My top 10 favorite yoga exercises

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Hi! I have not been posting the last few weeks because I have been busy revamping all my old blog posts (more than 160 in total! Besides this blog I have https://sfiprofittc.blogspot.se/ and https://wordpress.com/view/topcat66blog.wordpress.com, have a look.) However I feel the need to write a fresh post and since I have been doing yoga 10 minutes every morning (alternating with pilates and standing ab workouts) and I love top-10 lists, here is my favorite 10 yoga exercises. The pictures are all from pixabay as I haven't gotten around to making my own yet. General tips: exercising should be strenous but not painful. Remember to breathe! How long you should hold a pose is up to you. I generally count 3-4 breaths. It feels more useful to hold a pose then to run through them at high speed.  tripleclicks.com Kinesiology Tape Sports Muscles Care Therapeutic Bandage —  €10.53   (Save 16%!) Kinesiology Tape Sports Muscles Care Therapeutic Bandage Spe