This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. This is a nice finisher workout to add onto the end of another workout to strengthen your abs. Your rest/recoveries are brief and few but very welcome! I started strong but by the time you repeat the circuit my abs were burning out quickly and I had to keep taking 2-3 second breaks to thaw them out so I could continue on.
The exercises in this workout are done interval style: 50 seconds of work. The exercises are grouped as supersets or trisets, meaning no rest between exercises but you do get a 10 second rest between the supersets or trisets. There is a timer in the upper right hand side of the screen counting down your intervals and recoveries. During the recovery Caroline previews the next exercises. There is also a little bar at the bottom of the screen that counts down the entire workout time as a percentage.
The Abs! is 14:21 minutes minutes (this time does not include the optional 11:39 minute warm up) with a one minute stretch. Equipment: fitness mat.
- Double leg lower to toe reach (lay on back with straight legs raised to ceiling and head/shoulders elevated, lower straight legs until they are a few inches off the floor, raise legs back to ceiling then crunch upper body, reaching hands to toes)
- Single leg toe reach to lower (still on back, one knee is bent with foot on mat, other leg is extended straight to ceiling, head/shoulders are elevated, lower straight leg until it is a few inches off floor, raise leg back to ceiling then crunch upper body while reaching opposite hand to foot)
- Repeat #2 on other leg
- 10 second rest
- Double leg lower (lay on back, head/shoulders elevated, extend straight legs to ceiling, lower legs until they are a few inches off the floor then raise them back to ceiling)
- Alternating leg lower (lay on back, head/shoulders elevated, extend straight legs to ceiling, lower one leg until it is a few inches off the floor, as you raise that leg, lower the other one, continue scissoring the legs in this fashion)
- 10 second rest
- Toe reach (lay on back, both legs extended straight to ceiling, crunch upper body while reaching hands to toes)
- Alternating toe reach (same starting position as #8 but reach one hand toward opposite toe, alternate sides)
- 10 second rest
- Repeat #1-9
