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Lose Weight Workouts

  1. Lose Weight Workout: Plié Kick

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    Plié Kicks will target and strengthen your legs and butt. Stand with your feet two to three feet apart and your toes turn out holding a dumbbell in each hand. Use three to ten pound weights. Lay your arms hand down in front of your hips with your palm facing in. Now lower into a Plié squat by bending your knees out to the side until your thighs create a 45 degree angle to the floor. Raise your right leg out to the side with your toes pointed as you stand back up. Return to the starting position and repeat with your left leg. Do ten reps on each side.

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    with your toes pointed as you stand back up. Return to the starting position and repeat with your left leg . Do ten reps on each side.
  2. Lose Weight Workout: Rainbows

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    Rainbows will target and strengthen your legs, butt and abdominals. First, stand with your feet two to three feet apart, with your toes turned out, holding a dumbbell in each hand. Pull your shoulders back and extend your arms behind your hips with your palms facing your thighs. Bend your knees slightly until you're in a half plie squat. Keeping your lower body still, bend to the right and reach your right hand toward your right calf. Return to center then bend to the left and reach the left hand to your left calf. Do twelve to twenty reps on each side.

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    calf. Return to center then bend to the left and reach the left hand to your left calf. Do twelve to twenty reps on each side.
  3. Lose Weight Workout: Lateral Lunges

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    Lateral lunge exercises target and strengthen your legs, butt, and shoulders.

  4. Lose Weight Workout: Pendulum Lunges

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    These pendulum lunges will target and strengthen your legs and butt. First stand with your feet hip-width apart, holding a dumbbell with both hands in front your chest with your elbows bent. Lunge forward with your right leg, bending your right knee to 90-degrees. Be careful to keep your right knee aligned with your right ankle, don't go too far. Push-off the floor with your right leg to return to the starting position then immediately step back with your right foot and lower into a reverse lunge to complete one-rep. Do six-reps then switch legs and repeat.

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    far. Push-off the floor with your right leg to return to the starting position then immediately step back with your right foot and lower into a reverse lunge to complete one-rep. Do six-reps then switch legs
  5. Lose Weight Workout: Push-Up to Balance

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    Doing push-up to balance exercises targets and strengthens your chest, triceps, biceps, core, and butt.

  6. Lose Weight Workout: Renegade Rows

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    Renegade Rows will target and strengthen your core, biceps and back. Holding your dumbbells, get in a modified pushup position with your knees on the floor and this time place your hands directly under your shoulders. If this feels uncomfortable, keep the dumbbells next to your hands on the floor instead so they're easy to grab. Keeping your body still, then your left arm to raise the dumbbell to chest level, then lower the weights to the floor and switch arms to complete one rep. Do eight to ten reps.

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