Instead of the typical ab routines that we see so often with crunches, situps, leg lifts, etc... I like to give my readers better options for metabolism-boosting high intensity workouts that work their entire body while also working their abs... thus building rock hard abs & core, but also creating a much better fat-burning workout than a typical ab workout.

I'm going to show you an example today of one of my favorite "ab workouts" that doesn't include any direct "ab exercises" at all. It's in a tri-set format (similar to a super-set but alternating between 3 exercises).

Here goes:

1a. Renegade Dumbbell Rows
1b. Front Squats with Barbell
1c. Mountain Climbers on Floor

A good rep scheme to use with this could be 3-4 sets of 8 reps for each exercise, or more sets for less reps, such as 5 sets of 5 reps of each exercise. Mountain climbers can be done for a time interval (such as 30 seconds) instead of "reps".

More pictures and descriptions on the above exercises.

Every time you take your children to the park for some outdoor entertainment you can make the most of this time too!

Get your bottom off the park bench and give these playground workout moves a go!

• Park Bench Ste Ups (8-10 each leg)
• Push Ups (8-10) can modify by performing against park bench
• Picnic Table Hip Bridge (8-10 each leg)
• Monkey Bar Pull Ups (5-10) modify by jumping to top of pull up and slowly lowering to bottom
• Picnic Table Jumps (8-10)
• Sprints - invite your children, increase laughter, engage your core
  

How To Use

Perform these moves straight through as a circuit repeating 2-4 times or pair up into super sets, completing each pair 2-4 times in a row - take a short rest and move on to the next super set.

Enjoy yourself with your kids!

Firm and tone your arms with this exercise for 8 minutes only. Incorporate this to your regular exercise and see a great results in you.

Are you having problem with your bun or butt? You don't like the shape anymore because it is already sagging? Maybe you can try this 8 minutes exercise for bun/butt. Just remember to warm up your body and stretch and incorporate this exercise. Enjoy and keep fit!

Spot reduction is a myth that consists in believing that exercising and training a particular body part will preferentially shed the fat on that part. For example, doing sit-ups is not the best way to reduce subcutaneous belly fat. One cannot reduce fat from one area of the body to the exclusion of others. Most of the energy derived from fat gets to the muscle through the bloodstream and reduces stored fat in the entire body, from the last place where fat was deposited. Sit-ups may improve the size and shape of abdominal muscles but will not specifically target belly fat for loss. Such exercise might help reduce overall body fat and shrink the size of fat cells.

One misconception is that muscle tissue will turn into fat tissue once a person stops exercising. This is not literally true — fat tissue and muscle tissue are fundamentally different — but the common expression that "muscle will turn to fat" is truthful in the sense that catabolism of muscle fibers for energy can result in excess glucose being stored as fat. Moreover, the composition of a body part can change toward less muscle and more fat, so that a cross-section of the upper-arm for example, will have a greater area corresponding to fat and a smaller area corresponding to muscle. This is not muscle "turning into fat" however — it is simply a combination of muscle atrophy and increased fat storage in different tissues of the same body part. Another element of increased fatty deposits is that of diet, as most trainees will not significantly reduce their diet in order to compensate for the lack of exercise/activity.