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Pump it up (your pecs, not the jam)
Published: 10/6/2008 2:36 PM
Last Modified: 10/6/2008 2:36 PM

I hope at least one person got the Technotronic ref in my blog title. Whatever happened to them?

Anyway, as I promise in my Tuesday column, I wanted to share a muscle-toning technique I learned recently from my friend and stylist Lord V.

He was cutting a client's hair the other day (a friend of mine, actually -- we'll call her Jude) and, for lack of a more graceful way of putting it, noticed that she looked as firm in certain areas as a woman half her age. By "areas," I mean breasts. Sorry, there was no delicate way to put that.

Jude shared this trick a relative of hers taught her in childhood to keep your chest firmer than Father Time and Mother Nature might otherwise allow.

Although it's better if I could show you in person, I'll try to walk ya through it via verbage. Here goes:

1. Put the palms of your hands together. Then, with your palms still together, pivot your hands until you hear a pop. Kidding. Pivot your hands until your left fingers are pointing the opposite direction of your right fingers, arms in front of you. Make sense?
2. Now, bring your still-pressed palms to about chest level and start pumping them together -- like 15, 20 or 25 times. Your wrists are supposed to bend comfortably, but if that pop thing happens, stop. And don't even think about suing me.
3. Next, switch your hands so that whichever palm was on top is now on bottom. Get it? Sorry, I suck at directions. Anyway, repeat that the same number of times.

Jude does this every day, has for years -- simple, quick and, judging by Judy, quite effective. I've been doing it, too, and hope to be ripped like Mr. Torn by vacation next summer. Keep your fingers crossed.

Peace, love and happy pumping ... xoxo


Reader Comments 3 Total
kpye (4 years ago)
Pump it up... pump it up. Now, I have that song in my head!
elly willy (4 years ago)
Mental image burning eyes.....must go hit head to remove song worm..........
Do we love the name Lord V.??
Jules (4 years ago)
Ok... I tried, I popped, I still sag... I don't get it! :o)
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While other kids were watching "The Smurfs," Scene Writer Jason Ashley Wright was tuned in to "Style with Elsa Klensch." By fourth grade, he knew he wanted to write, and spent almost three years publishing a weekly teen-oriented magazine, Teen-Zine -- circulation: 2. After earning a degree in journalism from the University of Southern Mississippi, he became the medical reporter and teen board coordinator for the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, a Gannett newspaper. Eight months later, with visions of Elsa dancing in his head, he applied for the fashion writer position at the Tulsa World, where he began working on Aug. 3, 1998. He is now a general assignment reporter for Scene.

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