(intense upbeat music plays)
- Men's Health, what's going down.
It's Nick Cannon and you know what?
I'm about to put you up on some incredible fitness.
It's a day in the life of how we get down.
Me and my son, Golden.
We about to warm up, you ready?
- Yes.
- [Nick] Let's go.
(bell dings)
Give it to me one more time.
Uh,
uh, uh
yep,
all day.
(upbeat music continues playing)
All right y'all so this is how we get down.
Now you see the lights are dimming a little bit
because this is our second time working out today.
We do two a days.
You know we do the incredible,
core fitness gym in the daytime
and at night
we kind of get it in
what we focusing, and isolate the muscles
and we do all of that stuff.
And we gonna give you 10 exercises.
Got the one and only Eric Small,
Mr. Confused Muscle.
And what we getting into today?
- We gonna do a full body workout.
- [Nick] Okay.
- 10 reps.
- [Nick] Yeah.
- Two rounds.
(upbeat music)
- [Nick] Just to let y'all know,
Eric is a trainer to the stars.
So we putting y'all up on game.
He has trained everybody from Sherri Shepherd
to... Zendaya,
to...
me.
He don't pull no punches.
He don't care if you're a star celebrity or not.
He makes sure you get that work in.
So what we starting with?
- [Eric] All right, we gonna start off with a pike toe tap.
We gonna stretch out our hamstrings,
and our core at the same time.
Now, Nick, he's going to do the modified version.
- [Nick] I'm gonna do, yeah, I'm gonna do a push up with it.
Cause I'm a gangster.
- [Eric] Make sure you breathe out,
when you reach towards your toes.
Try to keep your legs straight as possible.
Engage your core on the way down.
Don't let your hips sink too far down like that.
You want to keep it right here.
You got two more.
Last one.
Good.
All right, we're gonna stand up.
- I'm already winded.
(Eric laughs)
- Let's go.
You can use the whole length of your mat.
We're gonna go 1, 2, 3.
1... 2... 3...
Keep the arms pumping.
Opposite arm, opposite leg.
Each side is one.
We're at five.
Turn up a little bit quicker feet.
Last one.
Good.
- Third exercise already.
- Third exercise.
- [Nick] Change your body. Change your life.
- [Eric] Walk in, walk out.
Simple as that.
- [Nick] Simple enough.
- [Eric] Let's go.
Stay low.
Don't have your butt up in the air, keep it low.
Engage the core.
Always.
60% of your power comes from your core.
Make sure you breathing.
Don't hold your breath on this one.
Two more.
- [Nick] Ah
- [Eric] Here we go. Last one.
Good.
Fourth exercise.
- I hate these.
- [Eric] He loves squats.
- As you can see from my legs.
- 1,
2.
Modified version, straight leg.
It's a good stretch on your hamstring,
when you do your legs straight.
Continue to breathe.
Don't ever hold your breath.
Last one.
Good.
- Woo
- [Eric] Fifth exercise.
All right.
- [Nick] Come on, we half way there.
- Come on Mr. Cannon,
we got back on the planks.
We got shoulder taps.
- [Nick] All right
- Feet shoulder width apart.
1,
2.
Try not to rock your hip.
Keep your hip under control,
core engaged.
Yeah I feel this one already.
Great for your shoulder strength.
- [Nick] All about controlling the core.
- [Eric] And good.
All right.
We're already halfway through.
Drop one leg, we're going to single leg raise.
You gonna drop one leg and bring it back in.
Alternate,
2.
Try and keep that leg straight as possible.
- [Nick] That's the whole goal.
Keep your legs straight.
- [Eric] My legs are straight.
Usually more than his.
- [Nick] Not today.
- [Eric] Woo.
Firing up that core.
Last one.
Good.
All right, next one.
We got crunches.
Feet off the ground, knees bent.
Go towards your knees.
Don't bring your knees towards you.
Keep breathing.
(heavy breathing)
Yeah. My... abs are on fire already.
- [Nick] On fire.
- [Eric] Remember this our second time today.
We was doing bar work all day.
All right, that's good.
Next one. Reverse crunches.
You gonna roll it in.
Roll your knees into your chest.
- [Nick] Now you bring your knees in.
- [Eric] Yeah.
All lower abs.
- Woo.
- [Eric] That's enough of those reverse crunches.
We gonna work on these obliques now.
So we gonna, do a side plank dip.
Up,
down.
Make sure your body's aligned straight.
- Make sure you don't have gas when you do these.
(Eric laughs)
Cause these are definitely the fart starters.
Ahh.
- [Eric] Feel this all in your oblique.
Core.
Good. Let's switch sides.
- Ah man.
- [Eric] We got two more.
- Never knew 10 exercises could be so difficult so quickly.
- [Eric] Feel like 30 minutes already.
Ah,
get that hip up as high as you can.
You can even reach up.
- Ah.
- [Eric] Good.
Next exercise is oblique V-up,
the beginner version.
Come up on your elbow.
Second step.
Bring your knees into your elbow.
If this is too easy.
Straighten your leg out.
10 reps each.
Or if you combine them, the two together.
- [Nick] (distant) 5 on one side.
- 5 on one side.
That's 1,
2.
All right let's go, oblique V-up.
I'm gonna do the beginner way.
I'm wanna make him look good.
(heavy breathing)
Woo.
- Next side.
- [Eric] You don't feel that pinch on your side.
You ain't doing it right.
- [Nick] Balance it out, baby.
- [Eric] Let's go.
I'm gonna do the combination on this side.
Ready, go.
1,
2,
3,
4,
last one
5.
All right, we got one more.
- Call this one incredible.
- Incredible twists.
- There it is.
Legs elevated.
- We gonna do 20.
Each side is one.
Let's get it.
1... 2... 3... 4...
5... 6... 7... 8...,
9... 10... 11... 12... 13... 14...
15... 16... 17... 18... 19... 20.
- It's incredible.
You do that in two sets every day.
Change your life.
- [Eric] No excuses.
- Woo.
(triumphant music plays)
- All right, now we get into the workout.
That was the warm up.
Now it's time to make it happen.
And right now this is the beginner.
Yeah. I said the beginner.
This is what we start with.
This is the incredible L-sit into handstand.
All right, here we go.
(Nick breathing heavily)
- [Eric] Good, front legs in.
(Nick breathing heavily)
- [Nick] Ahh, I got one more.
- All right. Next exercise is dip to L-sit.
We gonna go into a dip,
L-sit.
All upper body and core.
1,
2,
3,
4
Let's go.
(both laugh)
Light work.
- All right y'all.
So these are tandem pushups.
Teamwork makes the dream work.
It's incredible.
Let's go.
Down.
(rap music plays)
- [Nick] Woo hoo hoo.
- [Eric] Go quicker.
Woo!
That's a good company competition,
push up.
- All right y'all, it's time for some bar work.
These right here are called the incredible windshields.
Now this actually works
your arms, your shoulders,...
and of course your core and your abs right here.
We're gonna probably try to knock out
10 reps.
You're gonna watch our legs go from side to side.
Did I leave anything out E?
- [Eric] Don't hold your breath.
- Don't hold your breath.
Let's get it.
(heavy breathing)
- [Both] 3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10.
- [Eric] Woo.
- [Nick] Good work.
- [Eric] Come on players,
we do this.
- Men's Health,
there you have it.
We got it in.
It ain't work.
Unless you sweat.
Remember,
don't finish when you tired,
finish when you done.
It's incredible.