Lower Abdomen Workouts for Marathon Training

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village my name is Barbara Coradin with Energy Fitness in New York City and today I'm going to show you how to train for a marathon. So for this abdominal exercise we are actually going to engage in our lower abdominal as well as crunching the upper abdominal. You want to lay flat on the mat again, your hands are behind your head, not interlace just supporting the head and the neck, your legs come up, feet together 90 degrees. Shin is up, elbows are back, your legs are stationary so we squeeze and back down. Shoulders come off the mat a few inches really focus here, the legs are staying up are actually engage in your lower abdominal muscles and at the same time you are crunching the upper abdominal. Trying to build up that chord for the 25.2 mile chord so we squeeze and release. Crunch and down, you want to think about your abdominal not what you are going to eat for dinner tonight. So we squeeze and down, squeeze and back down. We can also pulse as well so we hold it, hold it, pulse, pulse, breath, squeeze. "