This is another post in our series of Fitness Saturday exercises—workouts appropriate to women in the second half of life. Personal trainer Brooke Marrone, president and founder of Brooke Marrone Fitness, in New York City, is our fitness guru.
We celebrate the last week of American Heart Month with another exciting new exercise to add to our routines. Working your glutes (buttocks) is essential, not just for aesthetic improvements, but also to ensure that you are giving your back the proper support that it needs. This week’s exercise, The Bridge, is an amazing and safe way to help shape and strengthen your bum, build muscle, improve core stability, and increase flexibility. Most important, this exercise will help keep your back healthy and pain-free.
To advance, end each set of ten with 20 little pulses at the top of your bridge, or bring one knee toward your chest and perform this exercise one leg at a time.
Muscles worked: glutes, abs, lower back, hip flexors, quads.