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THE
TODAY SHOW
ALEXIS GLICK reporting:
If as many treats end up in your mouth as in
your trick-or-treater's bag, don't worry. We've
got some help for you when it comes to working
off those extra calories. Personal trainer Juris
Kupris is here with a few exercises you
can do at home, especially if you're like me and
you ate candy the entire weekend.
Mr. JURIS KUPRIS: Yes, absolutely.
GLICK: Juris, it's wonderful to have you.
Mr. KUPRIS: Thanks for having
me today.
GLICK: OK, so let's just talk for a moment. First
of all, a lot of us can't make it into a gym.
We don't have enough time, it's too expensive.
You say, it's OK, you can exercise at home.
Mr. KUPRIS: There's nothing that
you can't do in your house that you can't do anywhere
else. It's great being here.
GLICK: And are you going to get the same level
of resistance and things like that? I mean, the
same kind of workout that you'd get at a gym,
at home?
Mr. KUPRIS: Absolutely. Whether
you're lifting a weight or a bottle, in this case,
you're still doing a resistance exercise.
GLICK: OK. Well, let's get to the exercises.
This is going to be tons of fun.
Mr. KUPRIS: Absolutely.
GLICK: Snow White has never had so much fun.
OK, what do we do? First thing...
Mr. KUPRIS: Well, this is going
to be an upright row.
GLICK: OK. Tell me.
Mr. KUPRIS: We're going to use
this one-gallon container.
GLICK: OK.
Mr. KUPRIS: You just start it
out in front and lift it just like this.
GLICK: Ooh, wow.
Mr. KUPRIS: Great exercise for
your shoulders.
GLICK: That's great. And how heavy is this.
Mr. KUPRIS: Well, one gallon
is about eight pounds.
GLICK: OK. So that's all you need, really, to
do this.
Mr. KUPRIS: Absolutely.
GLICK: And when in terms of repetitions, you
say it's until you feel fatigued.
Mr. KUPRIS: Well, we're working
to fatigue. So once you start sacrificing your
form, then you know that you should discontinue
the exercise.
GLICK: OK. Now...
Mr. KUPRIS: You can adjust the
weight as well by adding or subtracting water.
GLICK: OK. OK, great. All right, now you were
going to show us something about sliding books
to work on your chest.
Mr. KUPRIS: Oh, great.
GLICK: Yeah, you're going to do that one.
Mr. KUPRIS: Well, this--thank
you.
GLICK: Show me how that works.
Mr. KUPRIS: Well, this exercise,
we're going to utilize a book, OK? So it's like
a chest fly if you were using a weight on your
back.
GLICK: Un-huh.
Mr. KUPRIS: And you slide it
away from you just like this.
GLICK: Ah! Go back and forth.
Mr. KUPRIS: Great exercise,
helps tighten up in the area right in the armpit
and the chest area.
GLICK: OK, great. Wow. That's nice and easy.
OK, so you said also we're going to do some--is
it crun--not crunches. Is it crunches?
Mr. KUPRIS: We're going to do
some squats.
GLICK: Squats. OK. So all you need is a couch,
and you just sit down. You actually don't sit.
So show me.
Mr. KUPRIS: Well, you can adjust
how difficult you make this by how much break
you take on the couch. So if you need a little
bit more of a break, you can sit down a little
bit lower, or you can just touch it and come right
back up.
GLICK: Or you just keep going up and down and
you don't really sit.
Mr. KUPRIS: Exactly. And that's
a...
GLICK: So you're just squatting.
Mr. KUPRIS: And that's a great
exercise. It utilizes your quads, your hamstrings,
and your glut muscles.
GLICK: It's hard to take it seriously.
OK, all right, I'm sorry. OK, so what's next.
Mr. KUPRIS: OK, so, we're going
to...
GLICK: They're all laughing at me back here,
I want you to know.
ROKER: No, we're laughing next to you.
GLICK: Next to me. They're all dressed. They
went out of their costumes.
OK, go ahead.
Mr. KUPRIS: Well, we're going
to some abdominal and lower back exercises. The
first one, we're going to do a lower back exercise.
Tuck your feet underneath the couch. I don't think
you should do this one, today.
GLICK: I don't think I should do it, either.
Mr. KUPRIS: Hands underneath
your chin, and lift your upper body like this.
A great exercise for your posture, helps hold
you upright. And then, you know...
GLICK: OK, so let me ask you a question. All
the exercises that you've just shown us have all
involved a different part of the body. So is it
key, when you're doing your exercises, to make
sure you're doing some of each part of your body?
Mr. KUPRIS: Absolutely. You
know, the workouts that I do are based upon full-body
workouts. It maximizes caloric burn, and you get
a cardiovascular workout at the same time.
GLICK: The other thing is, we're told when we
go to the gym that you do a day on, a day off.
What's the case? What--do we--do we do that?
(Ann Curry begins doing push-ups) See, look,
look, look at this.
ROKER: What is that for?
ANN CURRY, anchor:
Like this?
ROKER: What are you dressed as? What's the deal?
GLICK: You know, I'm...
Mr. KUPRIS: I want to see...
ROKER: Mirror, Mirror, in my hand...
GLICK: Oh, you got it! I had it over there.
Mr. KUPRIS: (Hands Curry book)
CURRY: Oh. What? To do it with a book?
Mr. KUPRIS: You got to slide
it.
CURRY: Slide it?
Mr. KUPRIS: Off to the side
as you go down.
CURRY: Oh, you're kidding.
GLICK: Oh, wow. Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who's
the fairest of them all?
CURRY: OK, so like this?
Mr. KUPRIS: That's what works
out the chest.
CURRY: Oh!
Mr. KUPRIS: There we go.
GLICK: Oh, Ann, good job.
Mr. KUPRIS: That's great.
CURRY: I don't think it's going to work this
time. Wow. OK.
Mr. KUPRIS: And you can bring
your hips back a little bit to make it a little
easier.
CURRY: Oh, OK, you know what? You can stop right
there.
ROKER: Juris, thanks so very much. Thanks for
your help.
Mr. KUPRIS: Thank you.
GLICK: Juris, you look great. Thanks so much
for your help.
CURRY: And for those of you continuing with us,
stay with us. And for the rest of you, have a
safe Halloween. |