Healthy Tip # 144

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Another healthy tip courtesy of Hannah Curlee

boypushupBuilding muscle can help with weight control, but you don’t have to rely on elaborate gym equipment to strengthen your muscles. Instead, choose calisthenics that you can do without a machine by simply using your own weight as resistance. Aim to work your legs, hips, back, abdomen, chest, shoulders and arms with pushups, crunches and lunges. Make it a goal to work up to three sets of 8-12 reps of each exercise at least twice a week.

– Hannah Curlee, Director of Health Engagement for H2U and season 11 runner-up on “The Biggest Loser”