How To Get Stronger And Leaner Abs In Just 6-Weeks While Spending Less Than 10-Minute Per Workout…

It pains me to walk into a gym and see men and women blasting their abs with all kinds of sit-ups and crunches thinking that this is what they need to do to get lean.

This is the reason that crunches get a bad rap.

It’s not that crunches are a “bad” exercise like so many people claim, it’s just that people overemphasize and do them far too much.

If you want to build some serious core strength, crunches and crunch variations are definitely necessary.

However, even when trying to build core strength, this should NOT be your focus.

Instead, you need to focus on 3-Dimensional Movements!

What do I mean by that?

Think of your core as the stabilizer or “force center” that drives all movements that you do.

This means when you do exercises like pull-ups, deadlifts, squats, and even running… Your core is fully engaged, stabilizing you as you perform the movement.

The problem with JUST doing exercises like crunches and sit-ups, is that you are missing out of the full function of your core.

You see, according to author, Andy Waldhem, who wrote Assessment of Core Stability: Developing Practical Models, there are five different components of core stability:

Strength, endurance, flexibility, motor control, and function.

And without one, all are seemingly useless.

If you don’t have motor control and function, strength and endurance won’t do anything for you.

That’s why it’s important for you to focus on movements that will hit ALL areas of your core if you want your strongest core in the next 6-weeks…

So what exercises should you focus on in your core workouts?

Good question.

There’s 3 different areas that you should focus on when training your abs, hence the name 3-Dimensional Movements…

1) Stability

If you don’t first stabilize your abs, you won’t be able to build the kind of strength you want. Stabilizing exercises include:

Planks and Plank variations
Supermans
Glute Bridges
Flutter Kicks
Pushups Combinations

2) Strength

Everyone wants core strength. And our stability exercises above will certainly help build strength, however, if you want to take things to the next level, here’s what I recommend:

Sit-Ups and Crunches (and variations)
Russian Twist
Leg Raises (all variations)
In-N-Outs
Hand Walk Outs

3) Endurance/Intensity

Finally, incorporating exercises that focus on core endurance as well as intensity will help you burn off that ugly layer of belly fat. Here’s some of my favorites:

Sit Throughs
Mountain Climbers (and variations)
High Knees
Spiderman Kicks
Alternating and Through Crunch Ups

Now, in my experience, it’s always best to combine movements from all three categories into your workouts. This is what keeps your workouts fun and interesting.

Plus, by combining exercises, you are able to keep your workouts short and intense. Just like the one you will see below:

Sample Ab Workout:

Below, I’ve got a sample workout that you can give a try. And the best part is, you can follow along with us in the video below 🙂

Directions: Perform 20-seconds on, 10-seconds off on the exercises below for 4 total rounds…

Mountain Climber + Pushup Combo
Run-In-Place
Russian Twist
Sit Throughs
Toe Touches

This workout is pretty tough… But it’ll hit all areas of your abs focusing on all three of the categories we went over above: stability, strength, and endurance/intensity!

Remember, if you want your strongest abs…

You have to train your abs DIFFERENTLY than what everyone else is doing.

That may sound weird but think about it…

If you want average abs… Then you should do average ab workouts… Like most everyone does…

If, however, you want super strong and lean abs… Then do workouts like the one above!

Keep getting after it!

-Dennis