Fitness Trainer Paul Pisani Makes Us Sweat: Workout 1

By Alexis Wolfer & Paul Pisani

For the next month, get ready to sweat with top personal trainer, Paul Pisani – the man behind the physiques of many of today’s top professional tennis players. With four comprehensive training sessions designed exclusively for The Beauty Bean, February is going to be your month to get fit and healthy.

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While Paulie P’s revolutionary virtual personal training program, the Pegasus Trainer, is usually reserved for his personal clients (who pay $150 per month for access to his website); this month, your training is on us. You don’t even need a gym. Just buy the short list of required equipment below and get started. With minimal investment, you can set up a small home gym that will not only save you the cost a gym membership, but also time since all of his exercises are designed to work multiple muscle groups at once. Better yet, unlike most fitness websites and magazines that provide 2 dimensional (and often confusing) images, with Paulie P you not only get pictures and detailed explanations of the moves but also, if you still need more guidance, videos of a professional athlete doing the exercise for you.

What you’ll need:
3-pound weights
10-pound weights
55cm Burst-Resistant Exercise Ball
6-pound medicine ball
Resistance bands
A step-up platform (or sturdy chair)
An exercise mat (although a towel will work too)

Here, 3 exercises to give you a taste of what is in store for you:

Linear  Step Up (Muscles Targeted: Core, Legs)
Stand in front of an elevated platform with a shoulder width stance and good posture. Step up on top of the platform with one leg and use that leg to bring yourself to a standing position on the platform. Raise the knee of the other leg as high as you can without tilting your hips, leaning back or altering your posture in any way. Hold this position before bringing your foot down to the platform and then stepping down onto the floor. Repeat for the prescribed number of repetitions for each leg.

Alternating Chest Press (Muscles Targeted: Core, Legs, Chest, Triceps)
Sit on a Swiss ball with your feet on the floor and your legs supporting the dumbbells as you hold them. As you lie back on the ball, use your legs to help you get the dumbbells into position one at a time. Starting with both dumbbells at the top position, bring one arm down to the bottom position and then push it back up to the top position. Repeat for the other arm and perform the prescribed number of repetitions for each arm.

Swiss Ball Roll (Muscles Targeted: Core)
Kneeling in front of a Swiss ball, lean on the ball with your forearms. While maintaining good posture, use your knees to push forward and roll your forearms across the top of the ball. Only roll as far as you can without losing posture or letting your hips sag toward the floor. Continue to maintain your posture as you roll back to the starting position and repeat for the prescribed number of repetitions. 

To ensure that you are maintaining proper posture, you may place a dowel on your back so that it is resting on your head, upper back, and the very bottom of your back. If the positioning of the dowel changes during your movement, you will know that you’ve lost your posture.

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For the rest, go to PegasusTrainer.com, enter “beauty” as your username and “bean” as your password. From there, scroll down on your Client Menu to My Workouts where you will see a date. Click on the date to see the complete workout, pictures and even video.

After this month of exclusive access, if you love what you see, (and you will!) you can sign up to continue training with Paulie P for a truly personalized workout. Mention “The Beauty Bean” and get 20% off!