5 Minute Rock Hard Abs

Try this ab exercise three to four times a week to get those tight abs you always dreamed of.

Calories burned: 40 


Targets: upper abs and lower abs (rectus and transversus abdominis)
side abs (internal and external obliques) 

The breakdown:

a. lie on your back, feet on the ground.  Place hands behind head for support or across your chest.  Lift up
    towards the ceiling, shoulders off the mat.
b.  raise feet to about 90 degrees. Lift shoulders off the mat up towards the ceiling and lower back down.  
c.  straighten legs up towards the ceilings.  Reach up towards your toes keeping your shoulders off the mat.

Do 3 sets of 8 to 15 reps.
Reminder: exhale on the way up, inhale on the way down