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Total-Body Tune Up

A full week of sculpting workouts for a total-body tune up. Each day is dedicated to a different body area to Tone and Tighten your legs, chest, butt, abs, arms, and back. Do these right at home and you’ll define all the major muscles in your body with this weekly workout plan. 

 

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Total-Body Tune Up

  • Day One- Dumbbell Leg Workout
  • Day Two- Chest Workout
  • Day Three- Burn Your Butt Off Workout
  • Day Four- Ultimate Plank Workout
  • Day Five- Eliminate Jiggly Arms Workout
  • Day Six- Sculpted Back Workout

Keep reading for a step-by-step guide with pictures, videos, and descriptions of each of these exercises.

 

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One of the most-effective ways to see results is to add variety to your workouts and constantly change up different variables.

Challenge yourself this week. This total-body tune up is what you need to take it to the next level. 

This week we’ll pick one different body area on each of 6 days and work on increasing muscle tone and strength as part of our “Weekly Workout Plan“.  

This is going to be a killer week of workouts, but I promise you’ll love the results. Here we go….

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12 Minute Standing Abs Workout with Weights

Tone and tighten your stomach in no time with this awesome standing abs workout. Complete core strengthening in only 12 minutes and you never have to get on the floor. Beginner as well as advanced ab exercises demonstrated – grab your dumbbell and let’s get to work.
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12-Minute Standing Abs Workout

  • Standing dumbbell crunch
  • Rotating dumbbell crunch
  • Rotating curtsy lunge
  • Standing oblique side bend
  • Plie squat and twist
  • Curtsy overhead bends
  • Wood chops
  • Plie side bend crunch

Keep reading below for video, pictures, and descriptions of each of these exercises.

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Looking for a great way to intensify your ab workouts and take your core to the next level? There are two sure-fire ways to do it…

Try some new exercises and add weight!

All-too-often we think “ab workouts” need to entail a million sit ups and crunches to yield toned and fit results. Not true!

I encourage clients and patients all the time to get up off the floor and try something new. It’s actually a more functional way to train your core, can be easier on your back and neck, and yield amazing results.

Today I’m sharing with you eight of my favorite standing abs exercises compiled in one awesome core workout you can do right from home.

All you need for this workout is one dumbbell (or any type of resistance – even a big water bottle would do!) and you will be feeling this in no time!

No weights at home or weights too difficult? No problem – just do it without the weight. I’ve got beginner as well as advanced versions of each exercise demonstrated in the video below.

Bonus: NO CRUNCHES REQUIRED! You will be standing the entire workout!

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Gym Core Workout – Best core exercises you can do at the gym

A collection of 6 of the best core exercises you can do in the gym in one awesome circuit workout. This gym core workout hits every major muscle group in your abs, obliques, and back to strengthen your core and sculpt your midsection. The perfect workout for beginners up through advanced. 
 
Best core workout you can do in the gym. The best core gym exercises from Tone-and-Tighten.com
 

Gym Core Workout

  • Squats – one of the most effective compound exercises for your glutes and lower back.
  • Bosu Push Ups – decreasing stability of a classic push up makes your core muscles work harder.
  • Cable Chop – high-to-low cable exercise works the abs, chest, and shoulders.
  • Cable Lift – low-to-high cable exercise for the lower and upper back. 
  • Ab Crunch Machine – isolates the rectus abdominis (the 6-pack muscle in the front of your abs).
  • Ab Twist Machine – the perfect move for the perfect obliques.

Keep reading down below for details on how each of these exercises is properly performed.

“What are the best core exercises I can do the next time I go to the gym?”
 
“What is the best equipment to use at the gym for my abs?”
 
“How can I tone my abs quickly when I’m at the gym?”
 
I’ve said it before and I’ll continue saying it – your emails always make my favorite blog posts!!
 
I’ve recently received all of these emails from T&T readers and love the idea!
 
I’ve put together this collection of 6 of my favorite exercises that you can do in the gym for one amazing core workout.
 
These exercises are designed to not only tighten and trim your abs and six pack, but to also maximize strength in your back, hips, and core.
I put these together specifically to ensure you hit every major muscle group in your abs and core for maximum toning and strengthening. Hope you enjoy it!

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15-Minute Core Workout With Weights

This 15-minute ab workout with weights will take your abs to a whole new level of strength and definition. These are the best dumbbell ab exercises to tone your midsection and tighten up your six-pack. So grab your weights and lets get to work.

15-Minute Core Workout With Weights - 6 of the best dumbbell exercises to tone your abs and tighten your six pack.

15-Minute Core Workout With Weights

  1. Dumbbell Dying Bug – reciprocal limb motion to work all layers of your abs.
  2. Double Leg Raise with Dumbbell Jack – works upper and lower abs.
  3. Accordion Crunch with Military – a great core balance exercise.
  4. Dumbbell Heel Touches – great resisted exercise for the obliques and upper abs.
  5. Dumbbell Pike Crunch – add a new level of difficulty with a dumbbell between your feet.
  6. Side Plank Hip Dip – hold the weight on your lateral hip to add resistance to this oblique motion.

{Please keep reading below for a detailed description of each of these exercises and this workout.}

Are you sick of doing hundreds of sit ups and crunches and not seeing the ab results you desire?

Stop wasting your time and start adding some resistance to your core workouts.

Think about it – when was the last time you did 3 sets of 20 – 30 reps of crunches? I dare say the last core workout you did probably included these types of sets/reps.

Now think about the last time you did some barbell squats. Did you do 3 sets of 30? Absolutely not!

You probably added weight until you could perform 3 sets of 10 reps with a little struggle on numbers 8-10.

So the question needs to be asked – as you’ve been getting stronger and progressing resistance on all your exercises, why haven’t you applied the same principle to your abs/core?!

If you want to see progress and if you want your abs to get stronger and more defined you have to be doing some kind of resisted work… [PERIOD].

That’s why today I wanted to share with you 6 of my favorite dumbbell ab exercises in one amazing core workout with weights to sculpt your midsection and tone up that six pack….

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4 Of The Best Exercises To Flatten Your Stomach – Ab Toning Workout

How to tighten your stomach. These are four of the best exercises to tone and tighten your abs. The secret here is all about maximizing the contraction of your deepest abdominal muscle – the rectus abdominis. This is the muscle that “sucks everything in” and gives your stomach a toned, slimmer appearance.
 
4 of the best ab exercises for a toned, flat stomach. Tone and tighten your abs with this great workout.

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Best Exercises To Tighten Your Stomach

  1. Plank
  2. Bicycle Crunch
  3. Double Straight-Leg Raise
  4. Jackknife Sit-Up

Keep reading below for pictures/descriptions of each of these exercises.
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Don’t have the time for a flat stomach? Think again.

Many people don’t realize it, but it actually doesn’t take hours of grueling work to get a flat, toned stomach.

The key is NOT doing thousands of sit-ups and crunches; the key is activating the RIGHT muscle in the RIGHT way to tighten your midsection and tone your stomach.

You don’t need a ton of time or a ton of space; all you need is the right exercises performed the right way.

In just 4 moves a day, 4 days a week, you can carve out some major definition and actually lose “excess” around your midsection. Check out these 4 killer exercises for a toned and tight stomach…

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