Holding your breath while lifting can lead to injury. Press up through your fingertips, roll your shoulders back and down. Press down through your feet, lift up and out of your waist and through your crown. Lift your left hip, lowering your right hip. Press gently out through your left hip and stretch up and out, leaning toward your right.
Weight is even in both feet.
Keep both hips and shoulders on one plane, like you are a piece of paper, leaning neither forward or backward. Repeat on the other side. Firms and trims waistline, hips, abdomen, buttocks and thighs. Pain in shoulders, weak knees, heart or blood pressure disorders. About the contributors Dave Patania, a certified personal trainer, answers fitness questions weekly on Cincinnati.