Hey, guys!
Jeff Cavaliere here from athleanx.com.
You know, we are only days away here from the first official day of summer and I think
it's time that if you haven't got that six pack showing, we gotta do something and we
gotta work on this quick... ...because it's time to get out there, it's time to get our
shirt off for the beach, the pool, whatever you want to do, you gotta look good.
So I'm gonna give you one little exercise for your core using just a plain piece of
tubing.
This one's got handles on it, but whatever...
...you just need something for resistance.
You're going to wrap it around any kind of steady support that you have.
Now you're going to hold your arms up.
I have to get myself into a bit of an X shape.
We want to be out wide, so that we stress the core a little bit more from the obliques.
We're gonna go right in line before our hands go across our body, that's why I don't want
to hold it straight up.
With the bands, I can spread them out.
Now if I were to keep walking forward here, I have to keep working more to hold myself
down, by working my core to get myself in there.
So you want a good first beginning exercise.
Hold your arms out, walk it out and try to maintain an upright position and come down.
You can see how much my core is working just by doing that.
I can do a step forward, step back.
Step forward, step back and you can see again really how much that's working.
Now I need to take it at another level, which is why I suggested to walk yourself out, so
that there's tension.
I have to engage my core to pull myself down, ok?
Once my abs are fired up, I got my leg up in the air, straight out, touch it down so
it's right behind you and now bring it down, reach and crunch.
Back, balance, down, reach and crunch.
Back and down, reach and crunch.
A lot of balance...that works your abs just to kind of keep you stable.
And then down into the crunch...again, a lot of balance, but not really firing up the abs.
So we work about 6 on each leg.
Try to keep your knees straight if you can.
Flexibility is going to be a real big thing here.
I can only probably get about that far, that's fine..
As I get my hands stretched, a little bit more loose...I'll probably get a little higher
and come down.
But just by using the band we can do a lot of cool variations here for working on the
six pack, maybe the eight pack, depends on what you're capable of.
But really try to get yourself ready for the summer.
But guys, exercises like this...creative exercises for working the core...challenging those muscles
in a new way, are all throughout the athlEAN-X program.
So if you're looking at more time here, you don't know how to get yourself ready, go get
the athLEAN-X program.
It's on athleanx.com.
Right now, still for a limited amount of time, if you order, you'll get the Six Pack Cheat
Sheet where I put together my favorite supersix ab exercises, going through a whole progression...
...One specific progression that you have to follow all the time to get the best out
of your ab exercises...
...six must follow rules if you want to build abs and then put it all together in a program
that will show you how to lay it all out.
So guys, if you haven't already, head over to athleanx.com, join my team athlean.
Become one of the guys that's not afraid to take off his shirt when it's time to look
good.
Let's get it done, guys.
We're running out of time.
I'll see you guys back here next week with more cool videos.
You guys have asked for some flexibility stuff, I'll bring that too.
Talk to you soon.