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Stay young and beautiful with these body-boosting workouts for your age group from fitness guru Joanna Hall
Age: 20-30's
Your exercise priorities
You main aim during this stage is to prevent the loss of your cardiovascular fitness. Specifically, women in childbearing years benefit from postural exercises as well as core abdominal stabilisation and pelvic floor exercises.
Specific exercises
Perfect abs and belly stability.
What it does
It puts a stop to troublesome lower tummy bulges and supports your back, preventing back pain.
What you do
To really flatten that lower 'jelly belly' you need to target the deep transverse abdominal muscle, the one you are contracting when you lie on the floor to do up your jeans. To help you do this, go on all fours and pull your belly button in to the spine up towards the ceiling as much as possible.
Test how good you are at this by lifting opposite arm and leg off the floor and challenge yourself further by closing your eyes. Hold for between 5 and 10 seconds. You need to try and be as still as possible.
Stop: Thinking 'I'm young so I don't need to bother'. Artherosclerosis (the 'furring' of your arteries) starts as early as your late teens, and osteoporosis is sometimes known as 'the young person's disease with an old face'.
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