Couples Workouts for Health and Happiness: Core & Flexibility

Fitness instructor and couples therapist Gina Guddat demonstrates with the help of partner Larry Berg in this exercise program designed for two people. “Stay active! Stay healthy! Stay together!” is the motto here, and while the unlit candelabra in the apartment backdrop comes across as a tad corny, the idea that couples can help each other with balance while also improving their relationship seems solid. Featuring a warm-up with stretching twists, hamstring pulls, and knee-lifts, Core & Flexibility incorporates a lot of mat work, including three levels of lean backs (with rounded back and holding on to thighs), oblique lean backs (with joined hands), tap pulses, reverse crunch and leg extensions, oblique hip lifts, three varieties of plank moves measured by time not reps, and a “super couple” low back lift. Also featuring stretching segments for hamstrings, back (“dead bug stretch”), and legs, this is recommended. [Note: also newly available in the Couples Workouts for Health and Happiness series are Cardio Sweat and Strength & Tone Together.] Aud: P. (J. Williams-Wood)