CGX: 10 Min Sit Up Abs

This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. Another tough abdominal add on workout! I did this after finishing an upper body strength workout. This works well for that since you are on your back the entire time. So if your upper body is burned out–no planks! But that doesn’t mean Caroline doesn’t make your core work hard. This workout is non-stop; 10 minutes of continuous abdominal frying! I had to take a few personal breaks so I could continue! I imagine that my abs are going to be sore tomorrow but we’ll see!

Each exercise is done for 45 seconds with no rest/recovery between exercises. There is a timer in the upper right hand side of the screen counting down your intervals. When there is 10 seconds left of an exercise, a video appears in which Caroline previews the next exercise. There is also a little bar at the bottom of the screen that counts down the entire workout time as a percentage.

10 Min Sit Up Abs is 12:31 minutes with a 1:30 minute stretch. Equipment: fitness mat.

1. Crunch (lay on mat, knees bent and feet on mat, lift head/shoulders in a crunch while reaching hands to knees)
2. Sit up (full sit up with arms crossed genie style in front of chest)
3. Small tuck (still on back w/ shoulders and head resting on mat, lift hips, knees remain bent and knees come to chest when hips lift, hands are on mat beside hips)
4. Repeat #2
5. Toe reach (lay on back, straight legs are extended to ceiling, crunch upper body, reaching hands to toes)
6. Repeat #2
7. Reverse crunch (hands are behind head, head/shoulders are elevated, push legs out straight in line with hips, legs a few inches of the mat, then pull knees into chest and push them past head while lifting hips)
8. Repeat #2
9. Heel reaches (lay on back, knees bent and feet on mat, head/shoulders are elevated, alternate tapping hands to same side heel)
10. Anti-clockwise small tucks (same basic position as #3, except circle the hips, lifting them into a crunch when knees are at chest)
11. Repeat #10 in clockwise direction
12. Repeat #2
13. Feet together sit up (lay on back with soles of feet together, knees bent and open to sides (butterfly), do a full sit up tapping hands to feet at top of sit up)
14. Feet together crunch (same position as #13 but crunch upper body, reaching hands in the direction of feet but since you are not doing a sit up your hands obviously do not come anywhere near your feet)