YOUR SEXIEST BIKINI ABS ARE 4 WEEKS AWAY
This four-week workout and diet program was shaped by Jaclyn
Sklaver, sports nutritionist and head coach for the bikini competition team
Fitmiss NYC. “It’s important to target different abdominal muscles so you can
create symmetry, while giving your body stability and the skill to perform
functional movements in and out of the gym,” says Sklaver. Do your regular
full-body or split routine four days a week, adding one do exercises each from
the abdominis- and oblique-focused grouping. Do steady-state cardio or
intervals for 30 minutes, three to five days a week. Try the Bikini Abs exercises
Program and the The Bikini Abs Diet Plan to tone your core for summer.
1. BALL PIKE
Works: Rectus abdominis, obliques
Begin in a pushup position with your legs extended and your
toes on top of a stability ball. Lift your hips toward the ceiling into an
inverted V, with arms fully extensive. little by little lower your hips,
rolling the ball back to full pushup position.
2. HOLLOW ROCKS
Works: Transverse abdominis, rectus abdominis, internal and
external oblique’s
Lie face-up on floor with legs fully extended and toes
pointed. Bring both arms overhead. Draw your navel in toward your spine, hollow
out your abdominals so your subordinate back touches the floor. Keeping this
hollow position, lift your legs and hands about 6" off the floor. Begin
rocking back and forth with your entire body. Keep arms and legs extended,
using them for impetus as you rock at the same time as still maintaining a
solid core.
Do three sets of 15 rocks.
3. LONG LEVER BALANCE BALL SITUP
Works: Rectus abdominis
Lie face-up on a firmness ball with your upper back resting
on the ball. Keep your feet flat on the floor about hip-distance apart. Hold a
light dumbbell or tablets ball in both hands, and extend arms over your chest.
Reach up as far as you can, bringing your upper back off the ball; slowly
descend rear to start and repeat. Focus on astringent your abdominals rather
than pulling from your hips.
Do three sets of 15–20 reps.
4. BODY SAW
Works: Rectus abdominis, transverse abdominis, serratus
interior, internal obliques
Begin in a forearm plank position with elbows underneath
your shoulder. Rock frontward and backward about 6" in each direction,
moving just your torso. To increase the challenge, you can place sliders or
gliding plates below your toes; from plank point, slide forward and toward the
rear, moving your torso while keeping hips engaged and core tight. (This move
can also be done with the top of your feet in a TRX toe cage, rocking
6-12" back and forth.)
Do three sets of 15–20 reps.
5. CROSSBRIDGE
Works: Rectus abdominis, transverse abdominals, outer and
internal obliques, serratus anterior, glutes, hamstrings
Lie face-up on floor. Raise weight up while with knees bent
and feet on floor. Hold a light dumbbell in right hand with arm extended above
chest. Raise hips off the floor into a glute bridge, and extend left leg above
hips.
Keeping hips lifted, lower heaviness behind head while also
lowering left foot to about 3" off the floor. Raise weight up while
lifting left leg above hip, bringing arm and leg on the way to each other. Stay
in bridge position.
Do a full set of 15 reps on one side, then switch sides and
repeat. Do three sets total per side.
6. ROTATING ANGEL
Works: External obliques, rectus abdominis, transverse
abdominis, serratus anterior
Begin in a side plank, right prod on floor directly below
right shoulder and forearm perpendicular to body. Hold a light dumbbell in your
left hand in front of body. Stack legs and place feet on round side of a Bosu.
Lift hips off the floor, bringing dumbbell below body. Rotate torso a few
degrees to the left. Extend left hand toward ceiling, bringing the rest of your
body comparable to the floor. Rotate torso back toward floor, bringing weight beneath
you, and repeat.
Do three sets of 15–20 reps per side.
7. MINI GETUP
Works: Internal and external obliques, serratus anterior
Lie face-up on the floor with right leg cross over left
thigh, right foot on the bottom, left palm on floor, right arm extended over bear.
Lift upper body off the floor, leading the association from your right
shoulder; keep right arm extended. Continue pulling yourself forward until
you're sitting upright, using your abs to drive physically upward. You can use
your left hand to help without due consideration push yourself off the floor.
Slowly reverse reverse to start. Complete all reps in the set; switch sides and
repeat.
Do three sets of 15 reps per side.
8. LANDMINE 180S
Works: Shoulders, internal and external obliques, erector
spinae, glutes
location a barbell on the floor propped up in a corner or
uses a landmine base. clutch the free end of the barbell with both hands, and
stand with feet shoulder-distance apart. Pivot slightly to the right, bringing
the end of the barbell outside your right hip. This is your starting position.
Rotate trunk and hips to swing barbell in an arc toward outside of left hip.
Keep arms extended and your spine neutral, making sure to rotate at the waist,
not the torso. Reverse the pressure group, rotating from left face to right. To
increase the challenge, add mass to the barbell.
Do two sets of 20 reps.
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