Pair Up and Slim Down: The Couple Workout

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Quit the cuddling and spend some QT time at the gym instead. "Research shows that 94 percent of couples stick with their fitness programs when they work out together," says Jari Love, certified personal trainer and fitness DVD star. Here, some moves to try together.

How It Works

By motivating each other to get up and go, you'll not only shake up your usual weeknight couch-wine-reality TV routine, you'll be learning moves together and sharing a new experience. The following partner exercises take two people to do, using each other as resistance and also support. Talk about a relationship builder!

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joatc wrote:

None of your photos match the exercises you are describing and you doing an exercise and then your partner doing the same exercises, just sharing equipment doesn't make it a partner exercise, just an exercise with shared equipment. An example of a partner exercises would be the hook squats, where the exercise can't be done without a partner.

1/23/2013 07:09:46 PM Report Abuse

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9/17/2012 05:56:55 PM Report Abuse

sheilaealom wrote:

Get another Boyfriend...Just Saying!

8/31/2012 09:38:43 AM Report Abuse

ericadixiegreen wrote:

These are all nice suggestions, but my boyfriend is so de-motivational and unsupportive it's like I can't ever do right by him.

6/19/2012 06:50:48 PM Report Abuse