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Crunches and sit-ups not your thing? This standing abs workout with weights is one of my favorite core routines with 6 awesome ab exercises and no crunches or sit-ups to be found! Grab some dumbbells and get ready to tone and tighten your midsection while standing.

Standing Abs Workout With Weights (No Crunches!)

Standing Oblique Twist
Standing Reverse Oblique Crunch
Standing Oblique Sidebend
High Knees
Standing Trunk Rotation
Dumbbell Chop

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

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Who loves a good ab routine?

Take your abs to a whole new level by smashing them with some weights!

Adding resistance to any exercise is a great way to jump off plateaus and see some serious gains. Today we’re adding some weights to one of my favorite core routines – 6 awesome ab exercises without a crunch or sit-up to be found!

In fact we’re not going to get on the floor at all.

Try it out below:

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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.

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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