Want to Banish Bra Fat? We Have Your Back

By Kafi Drexel

Sure, of course I know what a yoga block is: a 4x6” foam cube, often spotted in, y’know, yoga classes. But I’d never experienced the foam quite the way Terri Walsh uses it in her newly designed 60 minute B-Method workout at Crunch. Walsh is the creator of a method trademarked as Active Resistance Training. With B-Method the yoga block plays a role as an active tool rather than a prop to get you from go-time to shavasana.

The block is used to create resistance as you pull your navel back and focus on keeping your shoulders down through every move to let all the muscles do the work they are naturally meant to do. It helps build strength as you squeeze it between your legs for sit-ups, or grasp them to glide back-and-forth between an extended puppy dog pose and downward dog MULTIPLE times (aggressive!). Trust me, you’ll definitely feel that one in your abs and maybe your inner thighs.

Walsh starts all of her classes with a 10 minute clinic of proper form to move through push-ups, squats, crunches, planks, and lunges. This way your body really locks in with the movement.

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"I needed to try to find a way to help people move from the inside out," explains Walsh of B-Method. "These are all essential components of motion. No matter what, you have to be able to do these things to have an effective workout experience. I like to take something people know and teach them how to get a different feeling.”

Oh yeah, and you will sweat A LOT because the routine was made to burn fat. It’s probably one of the most original workouts around right now, and I’m loving the fact that it is possible to really up the ante by doing the workout with anywhere from 2 to 25 pound hand weights. But you can also easily take light-weight blocks on the road for some serious body shaping. Walsh says her celebrity clients love the option when bouncing between movie set locations.

Now, as promised. Try these moves to kick that bra fat, bat wings, muffin top….>

Bra Fat Buster

Stagger the blocks on the floor. Place one elbow down on a block. Use the other block to place your opposing knee. Extend the opposite leg out behind you and bring your free arm above your head. Pulse the arm back 20 times.

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Abdominal Bat Wing Eraser

Stagger both blocks on the ground parallel in front of you. Place one hand on a block for resistance and extend up and to the side in the air. Keeping your belly tight and shoulders down, extend the same leg up and parallel to the ground as the hand you have on the block. Bring everything into a crunch. Extend back out. Repeat 10x on both sides. Go as slow as you need to really experience the movement. Check you later, beer belly and underarm wiggle!

Muffin Top Eraser

Place both blocks close together under your bum. Bring your feet together and place your arms to the back of your head in sit-up position. Bend forward with your navel pushed back, shoulders down, back straight. Come back up. Repeat 10x.

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Waistline Whittler

This isn’t only a stretch. Walsh also likes to call it a “waistline whittler.” It opens the groin area and creates length between the top of the hips and the bottom of the ribs to help achieve that sexy hourglass figure. Cross your legs in a seated position. Bring one elbow down on a block and reach over to the side. To deepen the stretch bring the the elbow to the floor and go further with your side reach. Hold for several seconds on each side.

You can find B-Method classes at Crunch in NYC. Look for launch dates in San Francisco this September and Miami by January.

photos: Anne Menke; Courtesy of B-Method

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