The Best Ab Workout For Making YOU Look Sizzling Hot

There are 11 exercises in this ab workout routine. Each exercise should be done for 40 seconds before you quickly change over to the next exercise.

Grab your music and turn it up high - a great song will make this workout a blast!

Exercise 1: Crunches

This is a tried-and-tested favorite of the ab world. And for good cause - when done correctly, it is very effective!

1. Lie on your back with your hands behind your ears.
2. Crunch your abdominal muscles tightly and raise your upper body.
3. Hold here for 1 second and then lower back to the start position.
4. Repeat slowly for 40 seconds.

Exercise 2 & 3: Left & Right Oblique Crunch

The next two exercises are extremely powerful. They will help to make your waist toned and narrow.

1. Lie on your back with one hand on your abs and the other behind your head
2. Crunch up and across touching elbow to opposite knee
3. Make sure you lift your upper back off the floor.
4. Lower back down to the start position.
5. Repeat for 40 seconds and then change to opposite side.

Exercise 4: Tapping Toes

This abdominal exercise will get your abs screaming for relief. But don't give it to them. Grit your teeth and push forward!

1. Lie on your back with your legs raised in the air.
2. Make sure that your upper body stays lifted off the ground at all times.
3. Slide your hands up towards your toes, crunching your abs up tightly.
4. Hold here for a split second.
5. Return to the start position and repeat for 40 seconds.

Exercise 5: Reverse Crunch

Still got your music on? Turn it up louder! The "best ab workout" is about to turn up the heat...

1. Lie flat on your back with your legs bent in towards your body.
2. Clench your abdominals so tightly that your knees rise up. Using the strength of your abdominals, try to raise your butt as high off the ground as you can
3. Return back to the start position and repeat instantly.
4. Continue for 40 seconds.

Exercise 6 & 7: Right & Left Side Crunch

Another core exercise which is featured in many top abdominal workouts. This one focuses in on your obliques - you should really feel it burning!

1. Lie on your side.
2. Crunch your side (obliques) and raise your upper body.
   
3. Hold here for 1 second.
4. Lower back down to the floor.
5. Repeat for 45 seconds.
6. Change sides and repeat.

Exercise 8: Stacked Crunches

Stacked crunches will really isolate the abs... Which should be burning by now. This set will probably be hard to get through - but you're close to finishing now - so don't give up! Don't let the best ab workout beat you!

TIP: If you would like to make this exercise WAY MORE difficult - raise both feet slightly off the ground. Ouch!

1. Lie on your back with your feet stacked on top of each other and shoulders slightly raised off the ground.
2. Slide your hands along your thighs up to your knees - or past your knees if possible.
3. Hold here for 1 second.
4. Lower back down to the start position.
5. Repeat for 45 seconds.

Exercise 9: Leg Pull

These will work deep within your abs to help build up a solid core.

1. Lie on your back with your legs up in the air.
2. Pull your legs towards you by using only your abdominal muscles. Make sure you don't just use momentum.
3. Hold here for 1 second.
4. Move back to the start position.
5. Repeat for 45 seconds.

Exercise 10: Side to Side Curls

Only two exercises to go. I find side to side curls a bit of a chance to gain my breath. It gives my rectus abdominus a break and zones in on the obliques.

1. Get on your back with alternate knee and elbow touching.
2. Lower your elbow and leg to the ground at the same time. Make sure that your shoulders remain raised at all times - no resting here!
3. Now, using the opposite arm and leg - raise up on the other side.
4. Make sure that your elbow and knee touch.
5. Lower back down and repeat.
6. Continue for 45 seconds.

Exercise 11: Ab Squeezes

Congratulations - this is the last exercise in the best ab workout! If you've got this far you deserve a pat on the back...

This final ab exercise is very simple... But, it should make you feel like there is a fire in your tummy!

TIP: For an even greater 'finale' - try to hold the crunch at the end of your 40 second set. See if you can hold it for a further 40 seconds!

1. Get on your back in a crunch position, with your hands feeling your abdominals.
2. Use the tension of your abs to raise up even further.
3. Hold for 1 second then lower back down to the start position.
4. Continue for 40 seconds.