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TO DO OR NOT TO DO? … ABS
TWO WEEKS PRIOR TO WRITING ARTICLE:
Jeanne is a client I have worked with for a number of years, and through a couple of births with very quick recoveries. She is naturally tall and thin with wide hips and very flat abs. She has that perfect body for wearing couture as you can see from her Vogue magazine write up in October of 2003. She is the type that doesn’t want muscle showing at all, just long sleek ‘feminine’ lines. We have stepped up her workouts of late because she is getting stronger and we do need to keep up the challenge to maintain that high metabolic burn rate for caloric expenditure, without creating muscle definition. Jeanne doesn’t like doing cardio so that’s not a solution.
Recently when beginning our workout Jeanne stops, pulls up her t-shirt and shows me her abs. … Read More