For the past week or so, I’ve been working out with a friend of mine. We are both running the half marathon in a few months together, so we’re training for that by running every other day. On the other days, I’ve been helping him with his strength training. On the days we run, we also perform some exercises to work our core or abdominal exercises. Each day we switch off picking the exercises.

So today, he wanted me to perform his 6 minute intense ab workout and I have to tell you, it was a pretty good one, so I had to share it with you. It’s basically just several different abdominal exercises you perform for 6 straight minutes. Now, learning from Jeff Cavaliere, rest for a maximum of 30 seconds after each set, however I usually only rest for maybe a good 10-15 seconds, so this workout had me sweating by the end.

You need to have a stopwatch of some sort when performing this because it’s not about how many reps you do, but how long you do the exercise for. Each exercise is performed repeatedly for 30 seconds each. There are a total of 4 different exercises, 3 of which you do for 30 seconds each and the other you do for a good 60 seconds.

Here is the 6 minute Intense Ab Workout:

Seconds:             Exercise:

0.00 – 0.30 – Crunches with knees up and your hands behind your head

0.30 – 1.00 – Crunches with your legs straight on the ground and your hands behind your head

1.00 – 1.30 – Full sit ups, but touch the ground between your feet each time you’re up at your knees

1.30 – 2.00 – Twists, Knees slightly bent and you lean back and twist from side to side. Hold a medicine ball if you can.

2.00 – 3.00 – Plank

Then you repeat this all over again for a total of 6 minutes.

Give this a go and let me know what you think.