Easy Ab Exercises: Makeover Tips

Video Transcript

"So abs are a very important part of your daily routine because everyone has that little piece of fat that hangs over their jeans or their dress, or whatever it is. So I'm going to show you a couple of excersizes to tuck that tummy in. Ok, so what we're going to do, is we're going to start with both of our legs up like this, and the best thing to do is hold it for ten seconds. Now your stomach is going to start to shake a little bit because it's not used to holding it. But we're going to go, and I don't even think I can do it for ten seconds! Ok, now from here what you want to do is lower one leg at a time. And this is all for the lower part of your abdominal. So you're going to go, you're going to actually you're going to start up higher and you're going to go, one-two- and you're going to do about ten of them. And you're going to do about three sets of ten. And this is all working your lower abs. And then at the end we're going to hold again for ten seconds, right where you are. You can even lift your head up for more resistance. Oh wow, I feel that! And down. I'm going to show you a basic crunch now that you can do every day, I do about fifty when I wake up in the morning and it's really good to do this before you eat. So drink one glass of water and do about fifty and then eat a bowl of cereal becuause it actually increases your metabolism for the day. The best time to do exercize is in the morning. I'm going to show you a basic crunch. You're going to put both legs up, ninety degree angle. You're going to put your hands behind your neck but you're going to look up at the ceiling so don't pull on your neck with your hands. You're going to look up, and you're going to crunch, and you're going to go one-back down. And make sure you're coming up enough, about half-way. You don't need to come all the way up. And after you've done all of these you're going to go up twice and down twice. So you're going to one-two-hold, one-two-down. one-two-hold, one-two-down. And thats actually working all of your muscles in your stomach. Now this is something that you can do anywhere as well, it's called the bicycle. And you're not going to just fly your legs out, you're going to go opposite shoulder to opposite leg, and it looks like this. Put your hands behind your head like this, and you're going to go one-two, and when you've got the rhythm, you're going to go a little bit faster. So you're going to go one-two-three-four-five-six. And the goal is to do it for one minute straight and listen to your favorite song while you're doing it. Put it on your ipod, put it on your stereo, because it's the only thing thats going to get you going. So again, you're going to go one-two-three-four. Try to touch your elbow to the side of your leg, thats the goal, OK? And again, you're going to do that for one minute. And then when you're all done with that you're going to put your legs at a ninety degree angle in the air and you're going to do twenty more crunches, like this. And it's really going to intensify everything you just did, and it's going to burn. But I promise you the next day it's going to feel great. Now this routine should be done three times a week. You don't need to do abs every single day, but make sure you do it often enough so you're abs know what they're doing. You're excersizing, you're raising your metabolism, and it's going to allow you to eat a little bit more and not feel guilty."