Everyone wants those beach body abs

So in today's blog I wanted to challenge my followers to an ab challenge. again? yea I know and YES! but aren't we in the middle of another one? YUP! That's why they're challenges and not just random posts. 

Summer is coming up so I want to get beach body ready even if I don't get a chance to go to the beach. With summer this year comes the summer olympics which I enjoy. One of the sporting events I love to watch is the diving. One of the divers I like to watch is Tom Daley.iif you don't know who he is or you've never heard of him look him up on Instagram or Twitter. He's good and he's an Olympic medalist. Lately he's been posting videos on YouTube and Instagram and I've been really interested in what he's doing because honestly the mans got a good body, of course he's probably been skinnier his entire life too so that's a challenge.

In the videos he challenges his followers to a daily workout for a week then he changes it the following week. I've tried doing week one's exercises and they're easy but he wants you to do 30 of each exercise. I admittedly can't do 30 of each and then repeat the whole circuit. So if you're in decent shape and can do the 30, by all means go for it. If you aren't quite as advanced as others start with 5-10 and then increase it throughout the week. Tonight I'm posting week one's routine and I'll continue to post each week for the next 4 weeks. 

If you're like me and you really want abs that people stop and stare at and think about how badly they want to look like that. I look forward to trying this and I hope you do too! 

I'm hoping for myself through this challenge as well as you that we'll look at this as an opportunity to better ourselves and our health/fitness level. With this challenge I'd love to see before and after pictures of each week or even after the six weeks is over. Progress photos are so worth it when you look at them and see how far you've come. 

Here is the first week's ab routine. Keep in mind if you can't do 30 start with what you can do even if that's 5. 

- small sit-ups (like a half rep you would do with a bicep curl or a chest press)

- regular sit-ups 

- side sit-ups on each side (lay on your side and crunch your core toward your waist, with your legs bent like a regular sit-up)

- toe touches (laying on your back with legs pointing up in a 90 degree angle, bring your upper body with arms [laying them out straight past your head like you're raising both arms to ask a question] flat up to touch your toes or as close to touching them while keeping your legs straight)

-  arch rocks (lay on your stomach with arms ending your head/legs straight out with your stomach on the ground rock forward and backward)

- bicycles (alternating bent legs like you're riding a bicycle laying on your back

- butt lifts (much like the toe touches except your arms stay down by your side and legs in the air lift your butt up off the ground)

- REPEAT

You do the circuit 2 times and you're done!

Not as complicated as the sound I promise. But if you're unsure of how to do these exercises feel free to look up tom's YouTube page!

I don't think you'll be disappointed with the results. 

Good luck!!