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Print the Workouts: Body Type Toning

Are you curvy like Kate or pear-shaped like Beyonce? No matter what your body type, iMag has the perfect workout to help your enhance your shape. Here is celeb trainer Jennifer Cohen's easy moves to help you flatter your figure. 

The Pear-Shaped Workout Plan

Curtsy Lunge:
15 reps , 3x per week
- Begin with your feet shoulder-length apart.
- Place your right leg diagonally in back of your left leg and lunge.
- Switch sides.
Note: Add bicep curl with hand weights to make this move more challenging.

Speed Skating:
Do this for 20 seconds and work up to one minute
- Begin with your feet parallel in a wide stance.
- Place your right leg diagonally behind your left leg and touch your toe with your right hand.
- Switch sides.

Calorie Burners for Curvy Women

Plie Squat with a Twist:
3x per week, 15-20 reps
- Begin by holding one hand weight in hands, your legs a little more than hip-width apart and your toes facing out.
- Squat in this position while tucking in your pelvis and keeping your back straight.
- Twist from right to left.
Note: To make this more challenging lift up your heels.

Boxing Jabs:
Do for 20 seconds up to one minute
- While holding two hand weights, place your right leg slightly behind your left.
- Jab weights in a punching motion back and forth.
- Switch legs.

Fat Blasters for Petite Frames

Multi-Joint Movement:
3x per week, 12-15 week
- Using 3 to 8 pound weights, start with your feet shoulder-length apart and your weight on your heels.
- Squat back as if you are sitting in a chair and bring your weights forward.
- Squat back up and extend your arms up towards the ceiling.
- Bring arms down to 90 angle as if you are making a muscle on both sides.

Mountain Climber:
Do for 45 seconds, 3x per week
- Start in a push-up position with light weights in hands.
- Take your right knee up towards you chest and switch back and forth as if you are climbing.

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