Hey, guys!
Jeff Cavaliere, celebrity fitness trainer, creator of the ATHLEAN-X training system and
and Men's Fitness writer, here to talk about one of the brightest young kids, one of the
most talked about kids in Hollywood, Taylor Lautner.
You know him, I'm sure, from the New Moon series, the vampire movie.
The kid's got an unbelievable shape.
He added 30 pounds of muscle by working hard.
Apparently he wanted the part for the werewolf and they weren't sure he can carry it at the
size he was at, at 140 pounds I believe.
He worked hard, he trained hard, he added a lot of muscle.
But he's probably more known for his "8" pack.
Not just 6, the kid's got 8.
He's really sort of a freak of nature.
Now he had a workout that was featured in Men's Health magazine about his entire training
routine.
He kind of wrote down his ab training routine and I wanna show you how he's doing the right
stuff, but how we can make his ab routine even better, making the extreme version, as
we can only do here at ATHLEAN-X, the Xtreme Taylor Lautner "8" Pack Abs Routine.
He starts off on the bar here, where he does his leg raises.
OK, that's fine.
That's a good lower ab exercise, but what we're gonna do is we're gonna incorporate
the obliques too to what I like to call the "hanging clocks".
We're gonna do clockwise 6, counterclockwise 6.
So up here, clock around, up, down, up.
OK?
All about control.
And we go back.
[pause] OK?
And that's his first exercise.
The next one, he talks about his physioball tuck.
So he's up on the ball here, coming in, tuck and back.
Now I just find this a little too easy, a little too hip flexer dependent to make it
a real effective ab exercise, so what I say is take one leg, put it up in the air...we're
all about being athletic here and creating athletic bodies at athleanx.com, right?
so what we're gonna do is simulate a run.
One leg up here, roll it in, run out.
Ok, now the job that he was doing with one leg is being done by one of my legs.
And a lot more workout around my core.
We switch, get about 10-15 on each leg and so on.
We're gonna complete this whole thing as a circuit.
So we go through 5 exercises, one set each, go back and repeat the circuit maybe 3-5 times,
depending on your fitness level.
Next one.
I'm gonna show it on a ball stool.
You do not need a ball stool, but it adds to the challenge of the exercise.
Take a thick band, come up on top of the ball stool.
Again, we could be on the floor, but we see on top of the ball stool the fact that I have
to stabilize through my core just to stay on top.
Hold the bands, wrap them once.
We're gonna come down, crunch.
Remember that the job of the abdominals in this position is to flex the spine, so we're
gonna flex, curl back, roll down.
Get into the obliques a little bit.
We're sort of doing a circle in the middle, then right, then left.
[pause] Now I lost my balance a little bit, but you
see how challenging it is when you put yourself on the ball stool ball with your feet off
the ground.
Next to a really cool exercise for what I call building pillar strength.
Pillar strength is gonna give you that 6 pack look.
I've only got 6, he's got 8, but that's ok.
We're both doing ok.
We're gonna do a side plank pull.
We've got a thick band right here.
We're gonna get a good stretch early on, lay on your side, elbow beneath your shoulder,
get into your side position plank.
Now pull back.
[pause] Yes, it's a row, you're working your upper
back and your arm, but right here, if I were to let go, I'd fall down that way.
So I have to use a lot of core strength in order to hold myself stable.
And up.
The last one, we now face the band.
Get into a regular plank position, get a good stretch, up until our plank here and we're
gonna touch opposite elbow and knee.
About 10-12 on each side.
[pause] So that's it, guys.
He's impressive, Taylor's an impressive kid.
He worked his butt off to get where he is, but he's no different than you.
I hear a lot of times that he's young and that's why he can get in such great shape
in such a quick period of time, but that's not true.
The fact that he's working hard, he's every day in the gym, putting in a consistent effort,
you can do the same thing.
Guys, 8 pack abs, 6 pack abs, whatever the goal is, you can achieve it if you follow
the right program.
I wanna show you the exercises here, show you what he's doing and bring them to the
next level, elevate them a little bit, to get you better results even faster.
If you want the entire workout program, exactly how I get my clients, athletes, celebrities
into the best shape possible, go over to athleanx.com right now to get your copy of the ATHLEAN-X
Training System.
It's my complete system.
90 days of meal plans, 90 days of workouts, if you just wanna workout at home with your
own equipment or 90 days of workout if you wanna go to the gym.
It's five days a week, not seven days a week, like some of the other programs out there.
Guys, thanks a lot.
I'm glad you were able to watch and I'll bring more of this stuff to you.
I love bringing it.
Let's keep it going.