Suzanne Somers: Get Healthy, Stay Sexy

Suzanne Somers has authored 20 books, including 11 New York Times bestsellers.

Health Goes Strong is very pleased to share Suzanne's personal insights into diet, weight-loss solutions, hormonal balance and more from her latest book, Sexy Forever: How to Fight Fat After Forty.

Here are Suzanne's very own daily moves to getting—and staying—in shape:

• Do yoga stretching exercises. If you have never done yoga, attend a class a few times to get the hang of it. I do my own form of yoga, exercising the areas of my body that feel tight and need stretching.
   
• Work your abdomen. Start with five sit-ups (not crunches—do full sit-ups, the real thing). Then work up to ten and beyond, as many as you can pull off. My Torso Track is great for abs and your upper body. That flabby stomach will disappear in due time. Keep at it. It will happen!
   
• Work your waist. Lie on the floor with legs bent at the knees. Keep hips flat on the ground and not moving while you bicycle your knees back and forth. Perform fifty, then eventually one hundred daily. This keeps the waist nice and trim.
   
• Get your heart pumping. Walk briskly for at least a half hour daily. Or go up and down the stairs ten times, working up to twenty times, until it is no longer difficult. And then keep adding, whether it's minutes to your walk or steps to your climb. Or use the elliptical machine or StairMaster at your gym. Just make sure you are breathing hard at the end; you want to get that heart rate up so you can strengthen this most important muscle.
   
• Work in resistance training two or three times a week. Start with a low weight, perhaps two to five pounds, then work up slowly. You don't want to start with too much poundage or you can injure yourself. A trainer at the gym or health club will be very helpful in designing a weight program for your fitness abilities.Or you can check out my EZ Gym for strength training and no-impact cardio all in one.