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| Location: | Port Elizabeth |
| Own transport required: | Yes |
| Travel requirement: | Occasional |
| Type: | Contract |
| Company: | Full Stop Communications |
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What It Is: A 32-minute express workout with celebrity trainer David Kirsch
Who Tried It: Grace Gavilanes, PEOPLE.com associate editor
Level of Difficulty: 10/10
After over a year of working out five days a week, I fell off my fitness bandwagon — and, honestly, I didn’t hate it at first. I began swapping early-morning wakeup calls for an additional hour of sleep, and hit the gym whenever I wouldn’t hit “snooze” on my alarm (which, admittedly, didn’t happen very often). The three-month-long hiatus was nice but I began to miss my daily cardio and strength training.
Enter celebrity fitness trainer David Kirsch — the man behind the super-toned bodies of Jennifer Lopez, Kate Upton and more — who promised to get me back into shape in half the time.
How? Kirsch is known for his 32-minute express workout: a low-impact, body-sculpting exercise that includes wide stance squats, reverse lunges, a variety of plank exercises and more.
“Jennifer [Lopez] uses it all the time. She’s getting ready for Vegas now,” Kirsch told me as we geared up for our session at his N.Y.C. studio. “It’s also very specific to celebrities but also non-celebrities. You’ve got mothers dropping their kids off, who’ve got a few minutes to get a good workout in and then feel great about the day.”
The express workout uses gliders, resistance bands, dumbbells and medicine balls. That’s it! While I tried out the routine in his gym, Kirsch assured me the workout could be completed at home — and can be switched up to complement anyone’s fitness level.
“Any move can be modified,” he said as we wrapped up, following my attempt to do a pylo push-up — the final exercise in the 16-move routine — without my knees. “I don’t want anyone feeling defeated.”
Keep reading for the full rundown (and watch the above video to see these moves in action) — all of which can be recreated at home. If not directed otherwise, do each move for 20 reps, and hold planks for one minute.
1. Wide Stance Squat
Stand up straight while opening up your legs so they’re a little wider than your shoulders. Keep your toes pointed outwards. Come down into a squat while holding a medicine ball straight ahead and overhead. This targets inner thighs, abs and glutes.
2. Reverse Lunges
“Bring your knee up and come back down,” says Kirsch. In order to avoid injury, keep your ankle and knee aligned.
3. Plank on a Medicine Ball
Place your medicine ball on the floor and hold onto it while performing a 30-second plank. “Put your chest right over your hands,” says Kirsch. Your abs will feel like they’re on fire.
4. Lateral Lunge
While keeping your right heel on the glider, bring your foot out while moving your body down (a lateral lunge!). Do the same on the other side. This targets your glutes. Medicine ball is optional.
5. Dumbbell Row to Tricep Extension
Using dumbbells, start off in a plank pose and bring your left elbow (the hand holding the weight) up toward the ceiling and extend toward the back. Do 10 reps on each side.
6. Shoulder Taps
“From a plank position, keep your hips squared off,” says Kirsch. From there, begin tapping your shoulders with opposite hands. I struggled for two minutes, while Kirsch shared that J.Lo completes a full five minutes. Hero.
7. Side Planks
Rest on your side before putting your weight on your forearm while keeping your hips up high. Keep your opposite arm up, and place that same hand on your head before using that elbow to reach toward your abs.
8. Overhead Slams with Medicine Ball
A clear favorite, this move calls for a medicine ball. Keeping your arms straight overhead and your legs apart, slam down the medicine ball on each side.
9. Torso Rotation with Resistance Band
“Bend your legs. Knees are locked. Arms are straight out. And rotate,” Kirsch instructed me. You’re holding on to a resistance band the entire time, pulling across your body to target your obliques.
10. Squat with Row and Bicep Curls with Resistance Band
Using resistance bands, squat down, then as you come up, bring the band toward your body in a curl.
11. Tricep Extensions with Resistance Band
Standing with your back toward the resistance bands, reach for them and bring them straight overhead, past your face.
12. Medicine Ball Sit-ups
This takes regular sit-ups to the next level. Bring the medicine ball up as you come up to complete one sit-up.
13. Weighted Jackknives
Lying down while holding the medicine ball, bring your arms and legs up to meet above your torso.
14. Russian Twists
Sitting up while still holding your medicine ball, twist your body to tap the ball on the floor on each side. This targets the obliques.
15. Push-ups with Glider
In a push-up position, use one glider on your left hand. As you come down for the push-up, bring out that hand to the side. Repeat the same using your right hand.
16. Pike-up Planks
You need gliders for this one. Starting off in a plank position, bring your feet (using gliders) in then separate them as your bring them back out. This move works the legs and the glutes.
Verdict: What didn’t I love about Kirsch’s workout? Nothing. I enjoyed every single thing about his signature express workout, which not only slashed my time at the gym in half, but also left me drenched. I also woke up with sore inner thighs, butt, abs and arms — the true indication of a killer workout, in my opinion.
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Unit trusts are an accessible, flexible and straightforward investment, making them one of the easiest ways to grow wealth. You decide how much and how often to contribute to the investment through lump sum payments or regular debit orders. The next step is choosing the right type of fund that suits your needs.
Unit trusts can be categorised according to their underlying assets and level of risk, which influences their potential returns. There is no such thing as a free lunch: to gain higher returns on your investment, you must be willing to take more risk.
Over the next few weeks, we will be covering each type of unit trust in more detail, but here is an overview to whet your appetite:
Income funds aim to provide investors with higher levels of income rather than capital growth. They mainly invest in low-risk, high-yielding assets such as fixed-term cash, bonds, and even certain property investments. Income unit trusts can pay out income every month, quarter or semi-annually depending on the fund’s characteristics. Investors generally choose to reinvest their distributions, which allows them to take advantage of the compound effect – generating earnings from their previous earnings and thus accelerating the growth of their capital. Albert Einstein once said that compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world.
Balanced funds combine asset classes (bonds, equity, property and offshore) in a proportion that gives the fund the desired risk and returns characteristics. These funds are often Regulation 28 compliant, meaning they can be used as an investment for retirement money. (Regulation 28 limits the extent to which retirement funds may invest in particular asset classes, to protect them from the effects of poorly diversified investment portfolios.) This type of fund is also the most common investment as it is moderate risk; the fund manager actively diversifies the portfolio and allocates capital to the asset class that has the most attractive return prospects given the associated investment risk.
General equity funds provide growth by investing in a spread of different shares across all sectors of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Equity unit trusts are usually riskier than other unit trusts, but also have the potential to deliver more attractive returns. The risk is that the performance of these funds could fluctuate from year to year, and gains are thus not guaranteed. It’s unlikely that you will ever get rich without taking some risk and these funds are an example of that principle.
Specialist equity funds are for the more advanced investor who believes that a certain sector or theme in the JSE All Share is going to do well. These funds usually invest in a specific sector (financials, industrials etc.) or according to an investment style (value or growth). Other notable specialist unit trusts include property unit trusts that only invest in property-related companies.
Global funds that are domiciled in South Africa (meaning the administration of the fund is in SA and investments in the unit trust are made in ZAR) buy assets on foreign stock exchanges like the London Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange. These funds are invested in assets that are priced in foreign currencies like Dollar, Euro, Sterling and Yen. Global funds generally have access to more industries and is an effective way to diversify a portfolio that already holds domestic investments.
Feeder funds [FF] are also in a sense global funds. A feeder fund is one of a number of funds that all put investment capital into an overarching master fund, which is managed by one fund manager who makes all the portfolio investments and does the trading. Feeder funds can be domiciled locally or abroad and can invest in a master fund that is domiciled in another country. Investors can invest ZAR into the feeder fund, which is then converted into a foreign currency (usually Dollar or Sterling) and transferred to the foreign domiciled fund.
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Researchers have calculated exact amounts for different age groups.
If you’re overweight or obese, losing a few pounds may save you some serious cash. A new study has shown that weight loss at any age resulted in significant financial perks, with people around age 50 saving the most—an average of $36,278(!) over the course of their lifetimes.
The new research, published in Obesity, is the first to take into account not only the medical costs associated with obesity and its related diseases, but also losses in productivity at work that could be attributed to weight. This helps paint a more complete picture of the real price tag of extra pounds, according to the authors.
“People often think of obesity as an insurance issue, and they know that expensive health care problems are associated with it,” says lead author says Bruce Y. Lee, MD, executive director of the Global Obesity Prevention Center at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “But they rarely think about the full magnitude of its societal and workplace costs.”
To find these numbers, Dr. Lee and his colleagues developed a computer model to represent the U.S. adult population, and estimated lifetime health effects for people who were obese, overweight, or healthy weight at ages 20 through 80. The model simulated the health status of these three groups year by year, and tracked medical costs (to the insurer or health-care facility), productivity losses, and sick time they would likely sustain as a result of their weight.
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They found that, at every age between 20 and 80, going from one weight category to another resulted in significant cost differences. A 20-year-old who goes from obese to overweight, for example, would save an average of $17,655 over his or her lifetime. If that same person went from obese to a healthy weight, those savings would grow to about $28,020.
Middle-age adults had even more to gain: The model suggested that an obese 40-year-old could save between $18,000 and $32,000 over their lifetime by losing enough to be simply overweight or a healthy weight. Cost savings peaked at age 50, with an average total savings of more than $36,000.
The cost gap between being obese versus overweight narrowed as people aged, so that people between 50 and 80 benefited much more from moving to the healthy weight category, rather than simply moving from obese to overweight. “This emphasizes the importance of weight loss as people get older,” the study authors wrote in their paper, “for both individuals with obesity and individuals with overweight.”
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Dr. Lee says it was a bit surprising that these cost savings remained significant throughout every decade of a person’s life. “Someone might think that if they’re 80 years old and they’ve lived their entire life without losing weight, then maybe it’s not worth trying at that point,” he says. “Our study suggests that if you really want to focus on reducing costs, then it is actually still important.”
Dr. Lee points out that the productivity losses in the study were based on median wage—and that if a person makes a higher-than-average salary, they’re likely to lose even more because of obesity-related problems. “You’re essentially forfeiting potential salary, you’re going to the hospital and the doctor’s office, you’re getting too sick to work, or your life is getting cut short,” he says.
Dr. Lee hopes the research helps employers realize the importance of prioritizing their workers’ health and wellbeing. He also hopes it serves as an incentive for people who know they need to lose weight but haven’t been motivated to do so for their health alone. “Everyone is interested in trying to save money and maximize what they can do with their salary,” he says, “and this study suggests one way they can do that.”
