The Los Al Gym

Today’s mini-challenge for the Mid-summer Challenge is to accumulate 120 seconds in L-sit hold. We give options with varied difficulty. This video shows the options in order of difficulty, starting with most difficult on the floor. You can use evenly stacked books in place of the weight plates, and chairs in place of the red plyo boxes. The challenge is to count total resets. So, if you do the L-sit on the floor for 120 seconds straight, then your score is zero. ... Tiebreaker win goes to most difficult position/set-up. You’ll need a partner to manage a stopwatch - counting in your head doesn’t count for... pretty much anything. Good luck! @odcmissleslie @zjenlevy @fittinabobina @begaklein @cricks18 @tinaheeren @joe.rios18 @action_health_coach @misslizodc @ericaskye80 @mahhcee @roni_yoshiko_negro @nourish_with_renata

Some how, the music just works out. Try this one: Candlestick to broad jump

Abs don’t lift legs. Use your abs to control things, like your pelvis. When doing ab exercises, you’ve got to make the connection between abs and your brain. Literally, think about it. What does tilt posteriorly mean? Imagine your pelvis as a bucket of water. If you pour that water behind you, then it’s tilting posteriorly. If you poor that water in front of you, then it’s tilting anteriorly (think of an arched low back, butt out position).... Although abs turn on if you were to kick, the abs don’t do the actual kicking. So, the hands under your butt when doing a reverse crunch (as in the video) do the posterior tilting - not your abs.

Try these pistol squat progressions! Spend time with each progression. With practice and working on mobility around the ankle and hip, you should be well on your way!

Not making progress towards the bodyweight you want? Our first recommendation usually is to track your food first for a week, and change nothing. Then we can make small adjustments over time thereafter. Often times, the food logs we see are like this one. Of course, we all have these F it moments and eat whatever we want. ... Please...HAVE THOSE MOMENTS! The strategy is to have less of them, have no guilt about them, and have the confidence and tools to move forward after them. As @syattfitness has said, you can’t mess this up.