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Core Workout

1 min
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6 exercises
Bosu Ball Mountain Climbers
Bosu Ball Plank
Flutter Kicks
Reverse Crunch
Swiss Ball Knee Tuck to Chest
Weighted Russian Twists
This Core Workout 1 min gym workout plan effectively targets your abs. Easily follow this workout with confidence on your phone or printable exercise program with our clear exercise demonstrations. You can also look up step-by-step instructions for each of the 6 exercises and see which muscle groups they target. Enjoy!

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Core Workout
1 min
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6 exercises
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Bosu Ball Mountain Climbers
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Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Obliques
Secondary:
Chest, Shoulders, Triceps
  • Place a BOSU Ball on the ground with the blue rubber side facing down. Carefully, place a hand on each side. Take a push-up position. Make sure your core is tight and hips are level.
  • Bring your left knee up and towards your chest. Focus on contracting your core. Return your foot to the ground and repeat on the other side.
  • Continue alternating until the set is finished.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Glutes & Hip Flexors
Secondary:
Chest, Shoulders
  1. Place your hands flat on the floor, shoulder width apart.
  2. Extend your torso and legs fully behind you with only your toes and balls of your feet touching the floor.
  3. Your body should be in a straight line, with your weight supported on your hands and toes only.
  4. Starting with either leg, flex your knee and hip at the same time to bring your knee up and under your hip. Your other leg should remain fully extended. This is the start position.
  5. Using an explosive movement, reverse the position of your legs, by extending the bent leg back and simultaneously flexing the straight leg until it is in the startposition.
  6. Continue alternating in this manner for the desire amount of time.
Primary muscle group(s):
Obliques
Secondary:
Abs
  1. Assume a push-up position. Core is tight. Back is flat. Hands are underneath the shoulders. Head is in neutral position.
  2. Bring one knee up towards your chest and twist towards the opposing elbow. (Ex: Right knee to left elbow.)
  3. Contract the core and return the leg to the starting position.
  4. Alternate between legs.
Bosu Ball Plank
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Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Obliques
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
  • Place a BOSU Ball on the ground with the blue rubber side facing up. Carefully, place your elbows on each side of the rubber side. Take a push-up position. Make sure your feet are together, core is tight and hips are level.
  • Brace your body on the BOSU Ball while focusing the entire contraction in your core. Keep hips from dipping by driving them up at a slight angle if you feel yourself dropping.
  • Hold this position for the entire set.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
  1. Get into a face down position on the floor supporting your upper body on your forearms. Your elbows should be bent at 90 degrees.
  2. Extend your legs straight out behind you, supporting them on your toes and balls of your feet.
  3. Keep your body in a straight line by tightening your abdominal and oblique muscles.
  4. Hold for as long as possible.

For extra balance training and core strengthening, you can lift one arm or leg.

Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
  1. Lie down on a padded surface. Have your arms extended above your head with your feet straight out in front of you. Point the toes down and forward.
  2. Begin the movement by contracting the core. Simultaneously, move the hands and feet up. Keep the legs and arms straight.
  3. With your gaze straight ahead, bring your chest and legs off of the ground, focusing all of the tension in your core. Hold this position for as long as you can. Afterward, slowly return to the starting position.
Flutter Kicks
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Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
  1. Lie on a mat with your hands under your buttocks and raise your legs slightly, keeping knees straight and ankles together.
  2. Keep abs engaged and perform short kicks in an alternating fashion.
  3. Repeat as needed and then lower legs to the ground.
Reverse Crunch
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Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
  1. Lie flat on an exercise mat on the floor.
  2. Extend your legs fully and place your hands palms down, flat on the floor beside you.
  3. Keeping your feet together, draw your knees up towards your chest, until your thighs are at 90 degrees to the floor and your calves are parallel to it. This is the start position.
  4. As you inhale, curl your hips up off the floor while bringing your knees further towards your chest.
  5. Continue the movement until your knees are touching your chest, or as far as comfortable.
  6. Hold for a count of one.
  7. In a controlled movement, return your legs to the start position, exhaling as you do so.
  8. Repeat.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Obliques
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
  • Lie on your back on a flat bench.
  • Reach overhead and grab the top of the bench with both hands.
  • Brace your abdominal muscles.
  • Straighten your legs and lift them up. Stop when they are above parallel.
  • Contract your abdominals as you bend your knees and bring your legs up and towards the top of the bench.
  • Pause then slowly release your legs to the starting position, making sure to keep the contraction in your abdominals.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Secondary:
Lower Back
  1. Lie on your back on a mat with hands under your lower buttocks on either side to support your pelvis.
  2. Legs straight out in front of you, ankles together and feet slightly off the floor.
  3. Keep your knees straight and raise your legs by flexing the hips until they are completely flexed.
  4. Return to starting position.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Secondary:
Lower Back
  1. Lie flat with hands under your buttocks.
  2. Keep your knees together and pull them in towards you while moving your torso towards them (lift your head, neck and shoulders up).
  3. Hold and then slowly return to starting position.
Swiss Ball Knee Tuck to Chest
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Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Secondary:
Calves, Glutes & Hip Flexors, Quadriceps
  1. Position yourself on all fours with your torso on a swiss ball and hands and feet on the floor. Stretch your legs back and keep your hands under your shoulders.
  2. Engage your abs and slowly walk your hands forward until your feet lift off the floor. Carry on walking out until your quads or knees rest on the ball in a plank position.
  3. Slowly bend your knees in towards your chest allowing the ball to roll forward. Tuck your knees under your torso as your hips lift towards the ceiling.
  4. Slowly straighten your legs and roll the ball out to the starting position.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Chest, Shoulders
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
  1. Bring yourself to the ground and enter an elevated push-up position with your hands below your shoulders and your feet directly behind you. Carefully, insert one foot at a time into hanging TRX bands.
  2. Maintaining a tight core, slowly lower yourself while keeping your balance. Once your upper arms are parallel with the floor, pause, and return to the starting position.
  3. Bring your knees in towards your elbows, feeling the contraction in your abdominals. Slowly extend your feet back into the starting position. That is one repetition.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Glutes & Hip Flexors
Secondary:
Calves, Hamstrings, Quadriceps, Shoulders
  1. Lie face down on a padded surface. Place your hands beneath your shoulders and make sure your feet are extended straight behind you. Push yourself up into a classical Push-Up position. Keep your hips are slightly elevated. Tighten your core.
  2. Keeping your gaze straight, push off the ground with your feet. Bending your knees, allow your feet to come up near your hands.
  3. Immediately, push off the ground again with your feet, extending your legs straight behind you once again to the starting position.
Weighted Russian Twists
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Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Obliques
Secondary:
Biceps, Forearms, Lower Back
  1. Sit on an exercise mat with your legs fully extended and your upper body upright.
  2. Grip a weight plate between both hands.
  3. Hold the plate out in front of your abdominals keeping your arms bent slightly.
  4. Cross your your ankles and raise them off the floor slightly.
  5. Bend your knees towards you slightly.
  6. Lean back about 15 degrees to balance your body. This is the start position.
  7. In a smooth motion,turn your torso to the left and touch the plate on the floor. Make sure you exhale as you do this.
  8. Return to the start position inhaling as you do so.
  9. Repeat the same movement, this time to your right side, again exhaling as you do so.
  10. Return to start position and repeat.

When performing this exercise, use smooth controlled movements. Jerking or using momentum to swing the weight can cause serious lower back injury.

Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Obliques
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Quadriceps
  1. Lie flat on an exercise mat on the floor keeping your lower back straight with no arching of your spine and with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor.
  2. Place your hands lightly on the sides of your head.
  3. Curl your torso upwards so your shoulders are slightly raised off the floor..
  4. Raise your knees until your thighs are at a right angle to the floor and your calves are parallel to the floor. This is the start position.
  5. Slowly move your legs in a pedaling action as if you are riding a bicycle.
  6. As you do so, exhale and bring your opposing elbow close to each knee by crunching to one side. Left elbow to right knee. Right elbow to left knee.
  7. After each crunch, return to the start position inhaling as you do so.
  8. Without pausing, repeat the movement to the other side.
  9. Repeat without pausing for the desired number of repetitions to each side.

Do not use your hands to pull your head and neck up during this exercise. Doing so may cause injury. Concentrate on a slow rhythmic cycle from side to side with perfect form for each repetition.

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