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I am going to show you a couple ab exercises that you can do at home or when you are in
a hotel room. So what I like to do is I lay down I lift my feet off the ground about 6-8
inches off the ground and then I take my arms and hold them by my head. You have to hold
your head and arms off the ground as well. Make sure that you are driving your lower
back into the ground to keep the focus in your abs. Hold for 15 seconds, I make a crunch
and touch. Go back out hold for another 15 seconds and do that sequence three times.
Obviously if you are just getting started working out your abs you might have to start
with your hands under your butt, and hold your feet up. So that is a good way to start.
As you get stronger you can build back to do a triple set like I showed you earlier.
Another good ab exercise at home is planking. You can be either up on your hands like in
a push up position, or you can be down on the ground resting your forearms on the ground.
Basically with either planking technique you want to keep your core engaged and tight.
As you get more advanced you can get into multi joint movements for planking. You can
do a spider lunge where you bring your knee up and touch your elbow while planking. And
kick your leg straight up. So now it is really hitting my abs as well as my legs and glutes
and hip flexors. Another good exercise is obviously pushups. If you are a beginning
you can start on your knees. As you get more advanced you can go to full out pushups. Obviously
form is important, you can hold yourself at the bottom of the pushup rep and push yourself
back up. That pause at the bottom is tough!!! So those are some good ab exercises that you
can use to workout at home.