Today I put a couple of clients through the soon-to-be-released TT Bodyweight Abs Workouts (workouts you can do anywhere - including a hotel room - without any equipment). One did the beginner version and one client did the advanced version.
Both were "just right", exactly how Goldilocks would have liked it if she was looking for a bodyweight ab program.
Not too hard, not too easy, but just hard enough.
One of my favorite bodyweight ab exercises that uses absolutely no equipment at all is the "X-Body Mountain Climber" (Cross Body Mountain Climber - but it looks cooler when you use an X).
• Brace your abs. Start in the top of the push-up position.
• Keep your abs braced, pick one foot up off the floor, and slowly bring your knee up to your opposite elbow. Do not let your hips sag.
• Keep your abs braced and slowly return your leg to the start position.
• Alternate sides until you complete all of the required repetitions.
After those workouts, I did the TT for Abs 300 Intermediate program. That's a bonus workout that can be done at the end of the 4-week Intermediate phase of the TT Home Abdominal Workouts program - or at the end of any 4-week Intermediate/Advanced TT workout. Or really, once a month if you are an "intermediate" or "advanced" fitness type.
After doing this one, Goldilocks might have sent it back, because it was pretty hard. But if you are looking for a challenge, you'll love it.
Finished with some overhead KB walking (holding the KB at arms length overhead). No swings or snatches today, rest day for the grip strength and foearms.
Turbulence Training Original Workout A tomorrow.
Got a sweat on today,
Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Author, Home Abdominal Workouts
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