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The Editorial Unit Sports expert, Gema García Marcos, publishes 'The Sports Angels Method', together with Carolina Prato and María Giner. The book, edited by The Sphere of Books , collects simple tips so that real women, with their stretch marks and cellulite, can be fit.

What is the 'Sports Angels' method? It is a cocktail of methods. I take every moment in everyday life to move. I take the children walking to school, I do not use an elevator, I dance when I hear music ... I also do my workouts. It's like integrating the movement into your daily routine. Carola proposes strength tables using your own body as material. María is the Pilates expert and brings the most Zen vision. How would you convince us that we are neither 'sport' nor 'angel'? It does not consist in suffering or in running a marathon or killing you to do abs. Find what you have fun and practice it. Stay active because the body is designed to move. Many people are tired of listening to canned advice at all hours. Yes, it's a pain, but it's for your sake. You have to move. Now, we have moved everything to the gym. I go to the gym to walk on the treadmill, it seems absurd, when you can walk in the park. Or go to the elliptical to emulate that you are climbing stairs. Are the runners not too intense? There has been a bombardment with running , but running is not for everyone. I see people running overweight or without any technique and I know they are going to hurt themselves. It is much healthier to walk at a vigorous pace than to tear apart your joints. To be fit, do you have to suffer? From a certain age, you have to do things sensibly and prioritize rest. I, the time I ran the most, had a frightful face. You rust and get old. You defend that you have to find the balance between effort and fun, how can I have fun if I am having fun doing abdominal crunches? You will have to look for exercises that make you feel better and do not cost you so much. Have you tried hypopressives? No. Or, you can dance, because that's how the oblique one works a lot. I'm going to confess something to you: gyms bored me sovereignly. Me too. I prefer to train in the park. Therefore, everyone has to look for what they like. Tell me about your most embarrassing moment in a gym. Oh, I've had so many! When I went to step classes, the choreographies never came out and I missed. But I am ashamed of few things. Do you bind a lot in gyms? No. People are more aware of looking in the mirror to see if they do the exercise well. I think it links more on Instagram. You have to go to the gym and then tell it in Instagram stories. There is the key. There is nothing that is linked to more than teaching good buttocks on Instagram. It's what peta right now. Buttocks, they, and abs, they. It is an obsession. So the object of desire of men is the ass and that of women, the tablet. Yes, that is the main claim. But I do not think that men who have six pack , that is the tablet, throw more dust than the rest. Sex is in the head. What do you have to do to have a good ass? Genetics has a lot to do. We cannot compete with Caribbean asses. The Spanish, in general, we have the flattest ass. You have to do squats, strength exercises and eat a lot of protein. Is there a lot of posture with fitness? There are very inspiring accounts from which you learn a lot. Others are from artificial influencers , which shows that they only care about the photo. When you really do sports, you don't go out ideally, but you are sweating and suffering a little. Pure farce, isn't it? I'm very angry because there are many influencers who have a closet full of shoes and there are athletes who don't have any to train. I do not understand the commitment of brands by people who only practice sports to take the picture. There are athletes who do not have shoes to compete, because in the photo they do not come out very cute and they are seen and wanted to find material. Elsa Pataky says that women have to lose their fear of weights. Do you agree? For a time we have become obsessed with doing a lot of aerobic exercise and what we have to do is build a good muscle, which helps us hold the bones. We have to be strong and well toned. We spend more than eight hours in front of a computer. What can we do to combat sedentary lifestyle at work? Get up every hour or two hours, climb stairs, stretch or hypopressive in the chair ... I sometimes do squats in the bathroom.You count in the book that when you go to the park with your children you take advantage and start playing the rope I start doing push-ups, but people are no longer surprised and neither are my children. Although, now, my daughter begins to be ashamed a little more. Why do we have that obsession to lose weight at all times? Losing weight is not always the best. You have to eat healthy, play sports and feel good about our body. They went to school with me because they said I was very skinny and, at that time, I had a complex. I wanted to have more curves and more chest. Now, at 48, I am finally at ease with my body. Why do we want to sell the motorcycle that 50 is the new 30? For the damn labels. Every age has its charm. I plan to be 70 years old and go with sneakers, jeans and long hair. The truth is that menopause arrives after 50. Gwyneth Paltrow argues that menopause has a bad reputation, which is what we lacked with all the pressures we have. Genital aesthetics is now very fashionable. We women have to have even the perfect pubis! It is no longer just cellulite, but, nowadays, they also want us to get genital aesthetics. Are they going to want us to complex ourselves through our vagina? Menopause is a natural thing to happen. Of all the athletes you've interviewed, which one has impressed you the most? André Agassi. He was my idol. I was very sorry for the sadness reflected in his eyes. You are Bruce Springsteen's number one fan. I've been trying to get me to dance for 25 years, but I can't. In 2016, a friend told me that I was at the Reebook Sports Club, I went and told her. At first, he was very scared and then he started laughing. In all the concerts I can, I get in the front row with a poster, but it never takes me out.

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