The Weekly Health Challenge: Posture and Crunch Variations

Weekly Challenge (Level One):

Improve your posture

Having good posture has many benefits, not the least of which is that it makes you look taller and more in command of yourself. All you have to do is spend a few minutes each day with a book on your head, and you'll get the idea. Head up, back straight, shoulders back. This can help you look and feel more confident, and it also works more muscles in your back.

Stand proud and tall!

Weekly Challenge (Level Two):

Do twenty-five crunches five days this week

We're dropping pushups entirely this week to focus on crunches. Instead of the regular old crunches you've been doing, do about half of them with one of these variations (you have to scroll down; they're there, honest). The variations you can use can work different muscles in your stomach area, therefore giving you a better work out.

Extra Challenge:

Is that too easy? Continue doing fifteen to twenty pushups. Keep working those arms!