Hey Queens,
I absolutely love TQ workouts and have been doing them for almost three months now! I am looking for some tips in engaging my core when doing the workouts. I know Maeve reminds us to tuck our bellybuttons in but in some moves physically I cannot do it!
Maeve is fantastic when it comes to tips and tricks (bend&snap!!) so wondering if you can help with this, Lottie could maybe talk about it briefly in the next workout!
I know the technique when standing normally but when doing the exercises I find it really difficult. One of my goals in the TQ challenge is to strengthen my core to protect my back so I would love some tips in doing so when exercising!
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@Ash McMorrow & @Sylvia Hurrell with regards to tightening your Abs/Core. I use to practice it standing up first, tightening the belly by pulling up from your pelvis & squeezing in the butt. Squeezing the butt helps your back but also helps you to keep the contraction. But the key part of it all is to keep BREATHING IN & OUT, while still squeezing tummy & butt. At first u might only be able to hold for 5-10sec maybe even longer but that will improve with practice. Try to do it while doing a plank that will b a real test. After that it will happen naturally for u. Hope this helps.
Audrey thank you sooo so so much ❤️ Will defo try!
@Ash McMorrow hey - so I'm not a PT at all so my advise my be way off. But I started quarantine with little no daily exercise in my normal life and now I'm doing hits every day with Maeve and lost 14lbs so not too bad.
I make little challenges to focus on to contribute to big picture other wise I would quit. So just before I started hits, I was walking this bridge across from my apt. it's really hot weather and I wanted to wear just a sports bra, but due to now gone belly, I wouldn't. So when I walked, in order to tighten my belly to wear just sports bra - I focused on walking slower but with by abs contracted, yes it feels at first like your constipated, it wasn't about the speed, it was the contraction I wanted to get used to and learn how to control it. Did that for a few weeks and one day I realized my muscles were contracted with out me even realizing it - Ching Ching!
then as I added in maeves hits - to ensure I was contracting what ever muscle when needed, I would say I again focused on being slower and thinking about the movement and trying to feel the muscle work rather than speed.
Over all the walking slow but contracted helped with my posture, inadvertently my abs too, I went from focusing on ab contraction to having my shoulders back, walking straight, to contracting my bum, so if you can get any walking in. I think it sets a foundation for you to build from.
I hope this helps
