PRESS UP

Benefits:
Strengthens and tones your upper arms, shoulders and chest.

How to do it:

• Position yourself on all fours, with your knees directly below your hips and hands below your shoulders, keeping your back straight.
• Bend your elbows and lower your head towards the floor, inhaling on the way down.
• Exhale and push your upper body back up by straightening the arms, keeping the elbows soft when fully extended.
• Repeat 10 reps. To increase difficulty move the knees further back, or try a full push up on hands and toes.

OVERHEAD TRICEP EXTENSIONS

Benefits:
Sculpt your triceps (the muscle in the back of your arm) by using weights and say goodbye to those bingo wings!.

How to do it:

• Sit on a stability ball or chair.
• Hold a weight (bottles of water or cans of beans will also suffice) in each hand and extend your arms above your head.
• Bend your elbows and lower the weights behind your head until they touch your shoulder blades.
• Slowly lift up to the starting position.
• Don’t lock your elbows at the top, always keep a slight bend.
• Repeat for 10 repetitions, increasing the weight as you get stronger.