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Carcercises: Excercises in Your Auto

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In the “Not Exactly Design-Related” portion of your automotive work day, we bring you a possible new segment in product design via website SimplyFitnessGear: Exercising in your car.

While the most practical way may not be to attach those Bow-Flex arms to your car seat, you can tune your abs, legs, and even shoulders with a few basic moves.  Read on to discover how Hanz and Franz Chevy can pump YOU up!


From SimpleFitnessGear.com:
4 Easy Car Exercises
No time to exercise? Stuck in a traffic jam with a long journey ahead of you?

There’s always a way to squeeze in a little exercise no matter where you are. Just make sure if you are driving that you only do these exercises when you have stopped or when it is absolutely safe to do them…

1. Tone Your Butt

You can tone the gluteal muscles almost anywhere by squeezing together your buttock muscles for 10 seconds and then releasing. Repeat 10 times.

2. Pull in Your Stomach

Faltten your stomach by breathing out and pulling your stomach in towards your back as far as possible. Hold for six seconds and release. Repeat 10 times.

3. Squeeze Your Thighs

Squeeze your thighs together as hard as you can. Hold for 10 seconds and release. Repeat 10 times. If this is too easy you can increase the toning effect by squeezing something like a ball of sweater between your legs.

4. Exercise Your Shoulders

Keeping your arms and shoulders relaxed and holding lightly onto the steering wheel, lower your shoulders and pull back as far as you can moving your shoulder blades together. Hold for 10 seconds. Repeat 5 times.

Comments (2)

Is “carcercise” a trademarked name or clever headline??

Permission to use?

As far as I know, it was just a clever headline. :)
Feel free to use it.

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