How to Build Abs For Busy People

This style of workout is different than what you've been doing, it will result in a considerably leaner, stronger body! This workout is great for busy people that have always used the excuse that they don't have time to hit the gym, or even for the normal gym rat to try out for a few weeks to break out of their routines.

Please keep an open-mind because most people are too self-conscious to try something like this. If that's the case for you, then that's your loss. Need not worry so much about what other people think, you might get the occasional sneer, but you surely you'll get the last laugh when you showed them your newly acquired rock hard six packs.

Instead of doing normal weight training and cardio routines for as long as an hour at one go, you'll be breaking them down to a few times throughout the day, for only a couple of minutes. You need to do for 5 days a week, but it's easy since it's only for a couple of minutes, and the best part is you can even do it in your office!

This bodyweight exercises can be done for about just mere 2-3 minutes, up to 8 times a day. Instead of having your colleagues laughed at you when you perform, persuade them to join you instead! It might actually turn your work out into something like a bonding session with your colleagues, fun time.

Some of the bodyweight exercises that are the best to focus on are:
• bodyweight squats (and variations)
• floor planks (holding the plank position from forearms and feet)
• floor abs exercise such as lying leg thrusts, ab bicycles, etc.
• one-legged bodyweight Romanian deadlifts
• forward, reverse, or walking lunges
• up & down a staircase if one is available
• pushups (and variations)

This list can still be expanded, but let's keep it relatively simple for now. If you do know of other bodyweight exercises, you can also add in those. What you really want from this is to get your blood pumping, with just 2 minutes work out your heart rate will be up a bit, and most of your body's muscles worked. Most of the time just mere 2 minutes exercises won't break a sweat for you, therefore don't worry about sweating, you'll get moist on your skin at the most.

Here's an example workout routine you can do either at home or at work (adjust the reps up or down based on your own capabilities and time):

Mon/Wed/Fri
9 am - 10 pushups/15 bodyweight squats, repeat 1X for 2 sets
10 am - plank holds (hold the planks as long as you can taking short rest breaks for a total of 3 minutes)
11 am - 5 pushups/10 bodyweight squats, repeat for 4 sets
1 pm - plank holds (hold as long as possible in 3 minutes)
2 pm - 8 pushups/12 bodyweight squats, repeat for 3 sets
3 pm - plank holds (hold as long as possible in 3 minutes)
4 pm - max pushups/max bodyweight squats in one set (no repeat)

Tues/Thurs
9 am - 6 fwd lunges each leg/6 rev lunges, repeat 1X for 2 sets
10 am - one legged be Romanian deadlifts (RDL) 6 each leg/floor abs for 20 sec, repeat 1X for 2 sets
11 am - 3 fwd lunges each leg/3 rev lunges, repeat for 4 sets
1 pm - one legged by RDL 3 each leg/floor abs for 20 sec, repeat for 4 sets
2 pm - 5 fwd lunges each leg/5 rev lunges, repeat for 3 sets
3 pm - one legged by RDL 10 each leg/floor abs for 30 sec (no repeat)
4 pm - max fwd lunges each leg/max rev lunges in one set (no repeat)

In order to progress on these workouts, you could either add 1 or 2 reps to each set per week, or you could progress to more difficult versions of each exercise each week (for example, close grip pushups, one leg raised pushups, squats with arms raised straight overhead, etc.). Click Here!