BeWell: Building Core Strength and Sculpting Abs for Summer

<div class="block">With the official start of summer just days away, it&#39;s the perfect time to sculpt your abs into shape. Cheddar News tapped a fitness expert who has an intense, yet effective approach to ab building.</div>

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Welcome back to be. Well for your fitness and four now pay attention because we're gonna help you get stronger sculpted abs. That's right. This workout is a great alternative to your standard crunches because it uses the wall for support. Yeah, so I tried this out and boy, did my abs feel it. Ok. We are working our abs and it's so surprising how difficult this is going to become very quickly. Alright, Diana from dynamic fitness, Long Island, talk me through what we're doing here. Right. Right now we're doing a be a dead bug using the wall. So I'm pushing my hands against the wall back, is pushing down to the floor. This is really good. If you have any lower back issues, you wanna make sure not thing leaves the ground and don't worry how low the leg goes. Right. If that's too hard, just bring your legs a little bit higher and you're gonna really feel those as. Absolutely. And the great thing is from this position, you can really feel the contact of your spine. So you make sure like the smaller back isn't arching off, everything is pushing on the ground and I'm pushing away from the wall with my hand to even create a little bit more tension. So you're holding like an isometric contraction through that side, holding a plank there all the time. Absolutely. Ok. So how many of these do we wanna do? You wanna do this for about 10 sets? So, right and left will be one full set. Ok. All right. What's our next exercise? Ok. So next, we're gonna do a little bear plank against the wall as well. So your feet are gonna come up, try to get the backs of the feet against the wall, hands under shoulders, knees under hips, we're to inhale and the next cell lift, same thing they holding that crunch, my back is flat. Now try to keep everything really stable. So for some people, this might be enough because this could be enough. This could be a hold. You could even do a, like a little down a little up, but this hold is plenty if you wanna breathe and do about 10 breaths here. If you want to progress it and make it harder, reach one arm out, bring it down, reach that other arm out. Right? If you wanna try not doing the fucking, is that right? You wanna make sure you're not moving, try to see people as you can and you can even wind in the feet if you need a little bit more stability support here too. Yeah, exactly. And then we also want to strengthen the lower part of our life and we really felt that way. So now do a lunch to a kick back. So again, hands against the wall, let's bring the right leg forward, left leg back. So just hit a lunch like you normally would on the ground. Both legs 90. Now we're gonna kick that right leg back, flatten the left foot, keep the hips square and then drive that right foot forward, lift your chest, bend both knees. So we're getting that knee flexion, hip flexion, working the quads, glutes hamstrings and same thing I would do about 10 sets forward and back will be one. And as you can tell by the way that we're talking, this is also really getting a heart at the same time, I'm sweating. I love it. This is a great workout and we would do obviously the other side as well and then you flip to the other side so that you're nice and even, and using that wall for balance here and support. All right, I love it. This is great. That looked intense. It was, you know, and, and I think it was so surprising because at first when she said, oh, we're gonna use the wall for all these different exercises. I was like, ok, but it really actually was great, especially if people have some lower back issues to add in, you know, you really felt your spine against the floor. You felt that connection, that tension. It was really good. Let us know about it. Make sure you hit us up on social media and we wanna hear from you also about anyone workouts that you think we should try, scan this QR code that's on your screen right now and let us know because we'd love to try them out. That's why you're always gonna find helpful workouts just like that one every day here on. Be well, plus money saving tips, home hacks and healthy eating options. That's right. So be sure to tune in tomorrow for more. Be well, helping you live life better. Drop down.