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Best Exercise Ball Ab Workout

Take your ab results further by getting on your exercise ball. My stability ball ab workout is the perfect combination of stabilization and strength in one routine. This effective exercise ball ab workout includes 6 exercises that are designed to flatten your belly, tighten your stomach, and tone your abs. Get ready, this is going to be a great ab burner. 

 

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Best Exercise Ball Ab Workout

  • Reverse Crunch
  • Pike
  • Reverse Oblique Crunch
  • Ball Transfers
  • Roll Outs
  • Crunches

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

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As a physical therapist I tend to learn a lot about the people I’m working with. One of the commonalities I tend to find is that many people have an exercise ball at home, but not a lot of people know what to do with it!

They’ll do crunches and a few push ups, but outside of that they’ll admit they don’t really know what else to do with them.

Well today is the day to pull out your exercise ball for a total ab burner!

Here we go.…

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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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15 Waist Training Workouts For An Hourglass Figure

15 Waist Training Workouts to tone your abs and tighten your stomach. If you’re after 6-pack abs and a slender hourglass figure – these workouts feature the best core exercises to do exactly that.

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“Waist training.”

I’m sure you’ve heard of it; maybe even seen it a few places (thank you Kardashian sisters and social media feeds worldwide).

If you haven’t seen it, it’s basically a corset.

You cinch up a piece of fabric around your middle that keeps everything “sucked in” and “tight”.

While this is a great temporary fix and will help you with your figure for one night or the duration of the time wearing it, there is actually zero evidence that it helps in the long run.

By simple wearing one of these “waist trainers” you’re not burning any calories, strengthening any core muscles (you’re actually weakening them as you rely on the corset to perform your muscles’ role of core stabilization), or losing any inches.

Basically, there are a lot better uses of your time… like exercising…

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I’ve got your “waist training” right here!

If you’re looking to whittle your middle, increase core strength, and get that “hourglass” figure you’ve always desired, don’t reach for the waist trainer… reach for your exercise mat instead!

Today I wanted to share with you my answer to “waist training” – 15 of the best ab/core/midsection workouts you can do that are going to help you slim down your midsection and add crazy awesome stomach definition!

If you’re looking for real-life “waist training” then buckle up – you’ve just landed in the right spot!!…

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Ab Bench Bootcamp Workout

Ab Bench Bootcamp Workout

  1. Reverse Crunch (Bent Leg Raises)
  2. Straight Leg Raises
  3. Hip Lift
  4. Seated Ab Crunch
  5. Decline Sit-Ups

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Ab Bench Bootcamp Workout - the toughest ab exercises up on a bench to elevate your results! From Tone-and-Tighten.com

5 of the best ab exercises that activate your upper, middle, and lower abs for an amazing core workout. You can do these at home if you’d like, but your results will be enhanced by using a decline bench. 

Looking to elevate your ab game? You’ve come to the right place.

Take your results a step further by using an incline/decline ab bench.

(Of course you can do all of these on the floor, also, but the ab bench ads a whole new level of difficulty to these!)

Today I’m running your through 5 of my favorite exercises you can do on an ab bench to work every area of your abs.

We’re talking upper abs, middle abs, and that hard-to-reach lower ab area.

I even shot a video to go along with this one. So grab your bench, get ready, and push play. Ab bench bootcamp is coming at you right now….

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