Burn 100 Calories with Power Yoga Moves

Bella Breakdown Sometimes you don’t think about yoga as something you do to burn calories and loose weight, but there’s more to the practice than inhale and exhale. Starting with a quick sunrise salutation, you move with your breath and do a fast paced, yoga burpee folding over, moving legs back and jumping forward. Do a round of warrior one, also called the crescent lunge keeping the core tight and the upper body relaxed. Move into warrior two stretching your arms out then into warrior three, sweeping hands back and towards the knee. Windmill hands down and build a...

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Yoga for an Achy Neck and Back

Bella Breakdown These yoga moves are perfect for a sore back after a long days work or an achy neck from sitting at a desk all day. Go on, get some comfy clothes and give these a try! Start with the Rabbit position. Start on your shins and hold on your ankles. Put the top of your head on the floor and move forward, arching your back and hold for 5 breaths. Sit to one side for Mermaid and walk your hand over towards the feet and really stretch that top arm long then drop your elbow and stretch...

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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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