{"id":1542,"date":"2016-01-24T20:51:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T12:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/24\/the-hot-new-gym-equipment-is-just-an-old-dishrag\/"},"modified":"2016-01-24T20:51:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T12:51:22","slug":"the-hot-new-gym-equipment-is-just-an-old-dishrag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/24\/the-hot-new-gym-equipment-is-just-an-old-dishrag\/","title":{"rendered":"The hot new gym equipment is just an old dishrag"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fitness marketers know what buzzwords make consumers believe their product is the best for a “tighter core.” But c’mon, most of them just want your cash.<\/p>\n

Save yourself the dough and use that thing you dry your dishes with for a cheap but intense core workout<\/p>\n

Brad Lloyd, a personal trainer in New York City, has developed a workout technique using just two dishrags. The man knows fitness; prior to his nine years of personal training experience he was a linebacker for Eastern Michigan University.<\/p>\n

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The “rag training” moves consist of repeatedly sliding a rag with your hands or feet to stretch and contract muscles. “The result is a complete full-body strengthen workout that challenges core balance, improves flexibility and movement control by the forces acting upon the body and the rag, and helps one\u2019s muscular toning,” says Lloyd. He maintains that regular rag training can also help body posture, an important part of a strong body Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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