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Golden Bachelor star Leslie Fhima’s ab workout resurfaces after sultry bikini snaps

The former professional figure skater and fitness instructor shared her 10-minute ab workout, which includes 12 exercises done within a 30-45 second or one minute time span with her soothing yet stern voice guiding and encouraging you along the way. 
The 65-years-young mother of three also has soft pop and house remix music, including Sweetest Pie by Dua Lipa and Megan Thee Stallion and Deja Vu by Post Malone and Justin Bieber, playing in the background, making for a killer workout sesh.
All you need to complete the at-home workout is a mat and medicine ball, which can be substituted with any weight.
After Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist announced their divorce earlier this month, less than 100 days into their marriage, some fans accused Leslie of rubbing her happiness in their face, but the runner-up clapped back at fans, saying she’s “very good friends” with Theresa.
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This 10-minute workout includes 12 exercises that are done for a 30-45 second or 1 minute duration, including classics like crunches and Russian twists as well as more abstract movements.
To start, she says to sit on your bum with your legs out, flexing your feet and hipbones down, while stretching out your arms straight to squeeze the ball between the palms of your hands near your feet.
Once in position, start rolling your back down until laying flat with your arms flexed straight while holding the ball above your head.
Once laying flat, continue to stretch your arms back until nearly reaching the floor, then row back up. Repeat for 45 seconds.
“This is a great exercise for the abdominals and to warm up the back… as well the arms and chest” she says, adding that you should use your core muscles rather than “jerk movements” while coming up and down.
Next, either move your legs into a V, or as a modification as a table top, which allows you to bend your knees, and continue the same motion, lifting the arms and legs up and down at the same time.
She recommends using breakworth to enhance the workout, inhaling as you come down and exhaling as you come up.
Next, continue to do the same motion but one leg up and down, continuing to modify at table top if necessary, at a time. Repeat for 45 seconds.
“Control – try to take the body and leg down at the same time,” she says, adding on repeat “exhale up, inhale down” and reminding to “keep those abdominals tight.”
Next, stretch it out before moving onto the Russian twist, where you are sitting in a table-top V with the ball near your waist as you twist side-to-side. 
“Look at the ball,” she says on repeat, adding to touch the ball to the ground. Repeat for 45 seconds.
“Make sure to stretch in between each exercise,” she says, as her dog, Sadie, joined for moral support.
Next, tree huggers for 45 seconds, which, again, in a table-top V, you crunch inward and outward while holding the ball. As a modification, you can put your heels to the floor.
“Take your time,” she says. “You gotta keep breathing – chin off your chest.”
Next, put the ball against your lower back, making a diamond with your legs, to do traditional crunches. She says your elbows should be in peripheral vision.
“Pull your core in – don’t let it pop out,” she says. “You don’t want to drop down into that ball, you want to take your body down and lift it up.”
Next, like a juggler, you will move the ball in between your legs either while kicking with pointed toes or with heels to the ground, as a modification.
After stretching, next, put the ball in between your knees and lay your back down while doing side-to-side arm touches to your feet.
“Keep squeezing,” she says about the ball. “Reach past those ankles.”
Next, after stretching, while continuing to squeeze the ball with your knees, put your legs in a flat table-top and do traditional crunches and extend your legs.
“Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale,” she reminds viewers. “You got it guys, cmon. Crunch. Crunch. Crunch.”
Put your ball down and stretch your legs before doing traditional bicycle crunches.
“Lift the upper body to the opposite side of the knee. Breathe. Keep your core in. Extend, extend, extend. Cmon, lift it up,” she says. “Self-correct yourself and really lift that upper body up. Pull your upper body in – don’t let it pop out.”
Stretch your body out before doing scissor kicks, on leg at a time, double bouncing before switching, holding the leg for an extra stretch.
“Don’t be afraid to give it a lil extra pull,” she says. “Stretch it out. Breathe.”
Relax, stretch your neck, before doing the next exercise, where you stretch your arms and legs into a U before reaching and circling back while touching your ankles almost like a butterfly stroke. 
“Breathe – lift it up,” she says. “You got it.”
One more big neck stretch before the final workout, which is a one-minute plank with 15 second intervals of different movements.
If you need a modification, she recommends keeping the knees down for the first 15 seconds or bending the knees back and forth throughout.
Then, she says to twist the hips side to side while in a plank, pulling the core in and looking forward instead of back to keep body level.
Then, lift one leg up at a time. Lastly, tuck the pelvis toward the naval.
Finally, you can relax and stretch into a shell and transition into a downward dog pose to stretch back and arms, then upward dog pose to stretch the hip flexors.
Lastly, she does a forward fold to stretch it all out then side to side while circling the shoulders.

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