10-Minute Ab Workouts

We all want abs, and most of us would like them in as little time as possible. Welcome the massive trend of 10-minute abs. These workout only take ten minutes, but they should be pushing your abs to the extreme the entire time. 10-minute ab workouts should be done with another daily workout, my preference is cardio first and 10-minute abs to top it off.  

Total Ab Workout

Of course, no 10-minute ab overview is complete without my personal favorite of ab workouts. This workout has worked abs for a gambit of different body types. If you are interested in getting some massive tone, you will love this. It may take up to 15-minutes to complete your first time around, but as you increase in core strength, the workout will take less time. This workout focuses a little less on the obliques and a bit more on the upper and lower sections of the abs, although it does give them a complete workout!

Beginner Ab Workout

This ab workout is great for the novice ab exerciser. The workout will work your upper, lower, and oblique abs evenly with two 5-minute circuits. I love this quick video and XHIT's video layout- they have timers on the lower thirds and let you know what exercise is coming next! It is so much easier to push ourselves to the limits when we know we are only doing it for fifteen more seconds!

The exercises are pretty basic and almost any level of fitness should be able to complete it. If you would like to kick-up this ab routine, you could complete it twice, or use weights for movements like the Russian Twist.

Lower Ab Workout

Let's face it, lower abs can be a very difficult place for a great majority of people to tone. This workout does a great job of pin-pointing the lower abdominal muscles and working them to the brink. Like the beginner ab workout above, this workout is done by XHIT, but uses a different trainer. Since it is an XHIT workout, it has the timer and lists the upcoming exercise as well. Love this. Although the workout calls for an exercise ball, Kelsey (trainer) says you can do the movements along without the ball if there is no medicine ball available to you.

YouTube Workouts on Vacation

This week is a bit hectic for the hubs and I. We will be staying with family at the lakehouse for a few days before we make the five-day trek back home. And did I mention we will have his/his parent's Jack Russell with us? We will. I love these trips, but the time before we go can be a bit crazy and fitting in a workout between unpacking, packing, visiting family, and sight-seeing can be difficult. These are the times that I turn to quick YouTube workouts the most.  

YouTube is a great place to go for free and up-to-date workouts. Anyone who has been reading this blog for more than a week knows that I love my YouTube, especially my YouTube workouts. This week is no different. I have been living off ten minute routines that can be fit in through out the day. Sure, a ten minute workout will not change my life, but a few quick workouts spread throughout the day is a whole lot better than nothing at all.

I have been going through a complete ab renovation starting last week, so it is no wonder that ten minute ab routines have become my healthy equivalent to bread and butter. This Cassey Ho Intense Ab Workout is two years old, ten minutes long, and fantastic. The workout is simple, quick, and can be done at home or while vacationing. All of these moves are things most people have done before and they will work all the different muscle groups of the torso. I would completely recommend doing this one before your dinner since it will help kick your metabolism up, but will not leave you as a pile of sweat who needs to re-beautify!

If you want to tone your whole body and help increase muscle definition, working opposing muscle groups is vital. For me, my ab crazed life must have some toning for the back. For that reason, I have fallen in love with Cassey Ho's Back On Fire Workout. The "On Fire" series is less than a month old, so there are plenty of fun, different workouts mixed into all of them. This workout could be done directly after the Ab workout, or another time throughout the day/week. Besides, who does not want a toned back that could rival the gorgeous Maggie Q's?

If you are ever stressed about your day and do not know how a workout, let alone life, will fit in, I would highly suggest completing a 10-minute morning yoga flow. Ten minutes is not much time to give up, but this time can do wonders for clearing your head and getting your day started on the right foot. I am always amazed how much better I feel and how much more time I seem to have after a quick morning yoga flow. This flow is great to do when you wake-up or before you go-to bed, depending on the time you find you get stressed the most. If you are really feeling super-human or super-stressed, try doing this upon waking and before sleeping. A relaxing yoga flow could completing change your day and your sleep!

This Tara Stiles flow is less than 6-minutes long and will help get your body ready for the day ahead!