Tips To Stay Fit On The Beach This Summer

Summer means food and fun and lots of beach time. This is no reason to give your workout a break.

Fred DeVito and Elisabeth Halfpapp, co-creators of Exhale's Core Fusion, showed Early Show co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez and Early Show weather anchor and features reporter Dave Price how to stay fit on the beach this summer.

"The beach provides such a great opportunity to work your core because the sand is such an unstable surface and as Core Fusion people from Exhale, that's our thing," DeVito said.

Instead of just grabbing a drink from the cooler, DeVito and Halfpapp suggest using the cooler as part of a work-out.

"You can use the cooler to work the back of your arm just by doing dips. You can bend your knees," DeVito explained.

When exercising, it's always important to pull in your abdomen.

"You always want to work the core and stabilize. This is great for the upper back, triceps. You can do about 10, 20 of them. You don't need to do many because this is very intense because you get to the dip lower, below the lower range in the triceps motion," Halfpapp said.

Push-ups can also be done on a cooler as well, but DeVito and Halfpapp again stress pulling in your abdomen.

Another target area to work on while at the beach is your inner thighs and glutials. This work-out can be done using a beach ball and a chair, but if you don't have a beach ball, anything will work.

Liz demonstrated this exercise by raising her heels, bending her knees, and holding onto something stable.

Proper posture is very important when doing this exercise.

To get more stretch in your back orthopedically and more depth in the core muscles, Halfpapp suggests taking a sarong or even your beach towel and wrapping it around your shoulder, keeping the beach ball in place, coming back to your waist, pulling in, tipping under, and you then you can do a crunch over a crunch.

"Being in the sand is a great place to work your abs because it's discrete," DeVito said. "Not many people are going to see it. And the sand really provides a nice base of warmth and a cushion for your spine."

Women who wear bikinis tend to worry about their butt and waist.

DeVito and Halfpapp helped to create a "Pretzel exercise" for Core Fusion, which works the waist, the butt, and the outer thighs simply by trying to lift the legs off the floor.

DeVito and Halfpapp proudly admit they have done these exercises at the beach.

"We try to keep it discrete. But sometimes we do get some looks," DeVito said.

"But who cares, you're going to look good!" Rodriguez said.

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