The 5 Best 10-Minute Ab Workouts
Hitting your abs hard and fast is the best way to work them for results.
Even though the most important thing when it comes to abs is what you’re shoving in your face, we still have to hammer them to make them grow and be more prominent.
So let’s do it as efficiently as possible.
The great thing about ab workouts is that they really don’t need to last any longer than 10 minutes. But that 10 minutes is going to be painful.
Not all ab exercises are created equal, so we’re only doing the ones that are going to work your midsection sufficiently for an intense 10-minutes.
These are the 5 best ab exercises:
V-Ups
Sit-Ups/Crunches
Hanging Leg Raises
Hanging Knee Raises
Weighted Sit-Ups/Crunches
Now, let me show you how to incorporate these phenomenal ab exercises into 10-minute intense workouts that will get you the results you want to show off.
10-Minute Ab Workout #1
10 minutes of hanging leg raises into hanging knee raises.
Set a timer for 10 minutes and grab onto a pull-up bar.
Start doing hanging leg raises, bringing your feet up to eye level while keeping your legs straight.
When you can’t do these anymore, start doing knee raises - bring your knees to your stomach and lower them back down.
Rest as you need but keep rest periods as short as possible.
You’re done when the timer goes off.
10-Minute Ab Workout #2
Do as many rounds as possible (AMRAP) in 10 minutes:
10 V-Ups
10 Weighted Crunches (Use a dumbbell or kettlebell)
10 Hanging Knee Raises
Rest for 30 seconds to a minute between rounds. No resting between exercises.
10-Minute Ab Workout #3
Dumbbell crunch drop sets up to 100 total reps. Complete in 10 minutes or less.
A drop set is where you do a set with X weight, drop to a lighter weight and do another set, and drop again.
Grab three dumbbells (or kettlebells) of different weights. A good place to start is with a 10, 15, and 20-pound dumbbell.
Start with the 20-pound dumbbell behind your head as you lie on the floor. Bring the dumbbell over your head and reach toward the sky with it, crunching as you do so.
Bring the dumbbell back down behind your head. That’s one rep. Do as many reps as you can with the 20-pound dumbbell.
When you fail, grab the 15-pound dumbbell and do the same thing until failure.
Then move on to the 10-pound dumbbell until failure.
Then, do the crunches without the added weight.
10-Minute Ab Workout #4
3 rounds done as quickly as possible:
15-20 Partial V-Ups
15-20 Full V-Ups
20 Bicycle Crunches Per Side
There’s no resting between exercises. Rest 30 seconds to a minute between rounds.
10-Minute Ab Workout #5
Complete as many rounds as possible of the following circuit in 10 minutes:
10-20 V-Ups
10-20 Sit-Ups
10-20 Crunches
Limit rest as much as possible in the ten minutes - your goal here is to push your abs as hard as possible in a short amount of time.
Remember that no matter how grueling these intense 10-minute workouts are, you have to fix your diet if you want to see your abs.
