Sport
The Clarins Workout
5 minutes a day is all it takes to exercise your most important muscles.
Ideally, you should repeat the workout 5 to 10 times.
However, you can also break it down into individual sections.
1. Flat stomach and firm buttocks: stand with your back against a wall, heels placed 20 cm away from the wall, chin in and legs 30 to 40 cm apart, abdomen pulled in. Clench your buttocks and contract the perineum muscles.
2. Firm inside arms. Maintaining the contraction, place the insides of your wrists together and push the top one against the lower. Reverse wrists and repeat 10 times.
3. Bust tone. While doing this, smile as widely as you can to contract the platysma muscle in the neck and strengthen the skin which supports your breasts.
4. Circulation boost. Now stand on tip toe to exercise your leg muscles. Take a deep breath and hold for 5 to 6 seconds.
5. Relax. Release and with your feet flat on the floor, bend your knees and let yourself slide into a kneeling position, breathing out slowly and deeply as you do so to relax all your muscles including the perineum.
Discreet and effective all day long
• Firm abdominal muscles: sit at the edge of your chair and lean backwards slightly, lift your feet while keeping your knees firmly together. Hold for 20 seconds. Repeat at least 10 times a day.
• Toned buttocks: when sitting, contract and release your buttocks.
• Toned arms and bust: when sitting with your arms crossed, push each hand against the opposite arm.
• Anti-stress: Roll a tennis ball back and forth under the arch of your foot – a great way to get rid of stress.