Body & Mind

5x the best home exercises for your abs

abdominal exercises for home

I absolutely still try to avoid the gym. As I mentioned recently, I am now a big fan of home workouts, still following the great motto: minimal effort with maximum results. Therefore, I have another ultra-short (but very intensive) workout for the abdominal muscles. Five exercises, five minutes, and you only need a mat. Don't cheer too early, it's harder than you think. You perform each exercise for 50 seconds, then take a 10-second break and go on. For each exercise, I have some important points to pay attention to, the rest will become clear in the video. Good luck!

Exercise 1
Important: keep looking up with your head, so try not to bend your neck. Make sure your shoulder blades come off the mat as you go up.

Exercise 2
Note: keep your back straight and lean back as far as possible.

Exercise 3
What is very important with the plank is to keep your body as still as possible. It works well to pull in your navel so that you can keep your back straight. Yes, indeed: as straight as a plank.

Exercise 4
In this exercise, you will soon pull your head up with your hands. Try NOT to do this. Make sure you come up from your core. You use your arms for stability. And remember again: keep looking up.

Exercise 5
Press your lower back as deep as possible into the mat and pull in your navel again. Be careful not to enthusiastically end up in a backward roll when swinging your legs up. Do it as controlled as possible.