10 Minute Ab Attack Workout

Unlike the playsuit that just came back in style for spring, a strong, sexy core is in style 365 days a year. With the help of this ab attack workout taken from my new fitness program EVOLUTION20, you’ll be heating things up come summer – or your next tropical vacation – when you reveal your toned and terrific abs. No props necessary, your body is your best tool. Do these moves three to four times a week, and you should see results in as little as two weeks!

1. Sit with your knees bent and your feet flat on the floor approximately 2 feet from your bottom. Place your hands behind your thighs with elbows wide.
2. Begin to tuck the tailbone and contract the abdominal muscles down as roll back 1/2 way. Hold for a count of 3. Roll back up slowly.
3. Release hands and hold parallel with floor.
4. Lift arms up to the sky by the ears, making sure to keep the stomach scooped like a soup bowl. Release the arms back down to parallel with the floor.

1. Lie on your back and bend both knees into chest. Interlace fingers on top of right thigh and extend left leg to 45° or lower.
2. Curl head and shoulders off the floor, curling up over the ribcage and looking at your belly draw down.
3. Press palms against the resistance of your right thigh pressing towards chest. Ab Fold (1 & 2)

Keep chest floating off the ground, switch legs and press palms against the left thigh as you extend the right leg. That’s one rep.

1. Start seated with bent knees, feet planted on floor. Place hands behind the back under the shoulders, fingers facing forward. Press into hands and feet to lift hips to table top.
2. Keeping hips lifted, lift the right arm off the floor placing the rand behind the head. Extend the left leg.
3. Pull the left knee in toward the nose as you, twist the torso toward the knee, trying to touch the opposite elbow to knee. Keep those hips high!
4. Untwist the torso, releasing the leg into extension with foot on floor. Repeat to the same side.

1. Begin in a plank position, hands underneath shoulders, feet slightly wider than hip-width apart.
2. Inhale, on the exhale draw abdominals in lifting the hips up to the sky while drawing the legs together and toward your chest. Jump feet back out to plank wide jack position. *Modify by walking feet forward instead of jumping.

1. Lie flat on your back with long steady arms by your side. (The backs of your arms and shoulders are anchored to the mat.) The abs are scooped. Bend the knees to 90° and squeeze legs together.
2. Lower bent legs to right. Only lower to the point your core can stay scooped and your opposite shoulder stays grounded. Lift the knees back to the sky and drop them to the opposite side. That’s one rep.
3. Lengthen your legs, making sure to keep the legs extended next to the hips. Lift the extended legs to the sky, then re-bend the legs to 90° and drop them to the other side. Repeat extension and lift. That’s one rep.

1. Lie face up, hands behind head, legs extended with one foot stacked on top of the other.
2. Lift chest and legs off the ground a few inches.
3. Twist chest toward leg, as you bring knees into chest. Draw right elbow to knees and pull the abdominals down to ground.
4. Extend legs until they are floating and inch off the ground and untwist chest to start position. Repeat on the same side for 15 reps and then do 15 reps on the opposite side.