A Little Perk For Your Girls
Whether you want to fight the sag of a larger chest or help boost a smaller set, we’ve got five moves to help prop up your bust.
Push-Up on an Exercise Ball
Repetitions: As many as you can with proper form
1. Kneeling in front of a large exercise ball, rest your torso on top, and extend your arms so they reach over the other side. Slowly roll your body over the ball, and inch your hands forward on the floor until just your thighs are resting on the ball. Your hands should be in line with your shoulders but slightly more than shoulder-width apart. For a printer-friendly version of all steps click below.
2. Keeping your abs contracted and your back straight, bend your elbows, and slowly lower your torso toward the floor. Stop 4 to 5 inches shy of the floor. Hold, then push back up. (For an advanced version, rest just your shins on the ball. If you don’t have an exercise ball or are a beginning exerciser, start with a push-up on the floor with your knees bent.)
Criss-Cross Presses
Repetitions: 8 to 16
1. With a three to eight lbs dumbbell clutched in both hands & lying with back on the bench or a carpet on the ground bending knees with feet placed flattened on the bench. Now arms are to be placed out at the sides, elbows bended so that the upper arm areas are at the height of the shoulders & palm areas to faced forwards.
2. Contracting trunk & pressing dumbbells upwards so that right wrist is crossing on top of the left one. Lowering to the beginning pose. On the subsequent repetition, crossing left wrist on top of the right one. Continually alternate cross-cross moves.
Upper Body Slide
Repetitions: 8-12
Start in a push-up position, hands directly under shoulders, resting on paper or plastic plates (for carpet) or washcloths (on wood or linoleum) as gliders. Keeping arms straight, slowly slide them out in front of you in a V shape to lower chest toward floor (as shown). Hover above floor if possible, then rest on floor. Bend arms to slide hands under shoulders and push up to start.
Cleavage Kickback
Repetitions: 12
Stand on an exercise band, feet hip-width apart, holding an end in each hand. With arms down at sides, squat and bend slightly at waist, keeping back flat. Draw the band behind you, keeping arms straight, squeezing shoulder blades together and feeling chest stretch open (as shown). Slowly release arms for one rep.
Chest Exercise Cable Squat to Punch
Repetitions: 15 on each side
1. Load 10 to 15 pounds on the weight stack, adjust the cable pulley to knee height, and hold handle in left hand in front of chest, elbow bent and right hand on top of left. Stand perpendicular to machine with feet slightly wider than shoulders and move away until there’s tension in the cable (you should feel like you have to work to keep your body facing forward). Lower into a semi-squat.
2. Straighten legs quickly and turn to the right as you punch left arm up to the right, parallel with the cable. Return to the semi-squat and repeat. Do 15 reps, then turn around to face the opposite direction and punch to the left with right arm. Rest for 60 to 90 seconds between sets.
Do it at home: Attach one end of a resistance tube low on a sturdy object, like a couch leg.
Now get bustin’s those boobies!
Always living with passion,
Sammie
