Yoga Routine for a Flat Belly

Bella Breakdown Start with a folded blanket on a hardwood floor and put your hands on the mat. Keep your feet on the blanket and just slide your feet back and forward. Feel those abs yet? Lift one leg up, slide it back and forth a few more times. Then, switch legs. Next, try sliding it back with both legs and twist from side to side. The key to getting a flat belly is a little bit of cardio so go into plank position and tap your right knee to your forehead, then your left. Do those a few...

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4-Minute Fat-Blasting Yoga Tabata Mashup

Bella Breakdown Tabata is a workout routine where you get the most intense, awesome workout in a span four minutes, combined here with rest periods in calming, muscle stretching yoga poses. It’s twenty seconds on then ten seconds rest. The first thing you’ll do it go from plank to forearm one arm at a time and then to rest go into a thread-the-needle yoga pose laying one ear on the mat, reaching out with one arm and over with the other and then you go back into plank to forearm for twenty seconds and thread-the-needle on the other side....

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Mini-Workout: Triangle Oblique

Bella Breakdown You’ve got to check out this fab mini-workout. Just throw on that work out outfit you bought with the tags still on it in the back of your closet and pop on this quick vid. This butt exercise has you starting with one hand and one knee on the ground – you could use a yoga mat or towel to cushion the movements if you’re on a hard surface. Make a nice triangle, raising your leg and focusing on your obliques, adding a little bonus in there with your leg and really crunching your side to work...

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Yoga to Turn Around Any Bad Day

Bella Breakdown We all know yoga is calming and breathing is good for getting you back to your ‘center’ – wherever that is – but not all of us have time for a full yoga routine on a busy stressful day. Don’t fret. Here are some great pick-me ups to lift your mood. Just do some of these great de-stressing exercises and you’ll be back to your normal sunny self. Just warm up by standing and twisting from side to side, it’s super easy and great for getting out any bad vibes, use your exhales to expel the negativity,...

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Fun Workout Trend: Pound

  Bella Breakdown When a workout isn’t fun, it’s hard to stick with it. That said, we’re always on the hunt for exciting, new ways to exercise in order to keep ourselves motivated. Enter: Pound. This trendy class is so fun, you don’t even realize you are burning some serious calories. If you need ever feel the need to release tension at the end of the day or if you just want to feel like a rock star, the ‘Pound Fit’ workout allows participant to rock out with drum sticks while getting fit. With the help of weighted drumsticks...

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