I have been putting together awesome ab workouts for the Zgym lately using all kinds of great exercises that will target those muscles in your midsection and raise up your heart rate at the same time. I love when they’re challenging and require extra endurance, strength, or agility. Call me crazy, but It just makes it a lot more fun for me 🙂 In this video I show you some of the fun exercises that I include into my workouts on a regular basis and one exercise that is completely evil for how innocent it looks. The walking elbow plank is not at as easy as it looks. Watch the video and give it a try!

Walking Elbow Plank

Get into the plank and support yourself with elbows. Make sure that your elbows are directly underneath your shoulders and your hands are pointing straight forward. Start at the edge of your exercise mat so that you have only your forearms on the mat. Keep your body in one straight line without dropping your hips or pushing them up. Start taking mini steps forward and walk up the exercise mat until you reach the end of it. Make sure that you are not bending your knees too much, because that would make your hips go up which you want to avoid. Also make sure that you are not twisting your hips side to side and keep your hips leveled with the ground instead. Once you reach the end of the mat, reverse the movement and walk backwards to the starting position. Walking one full length of the exercise mat counts as one rep. Try to do 10 reps and let me know how you feel! My abs were on fire when I did this exercise and it totally caught me by surprise.

Have fun,

Z.