21 Day Fix 10 Minute Ab Fix

Autumn works out with a group of background exercisers, one providing beginner modifications. This workout is found on both DVDs in the set. You wont need any equipment for this nonstop ab blast.

All exercisers are done on the floor and are performed for 20 seconds each. Exercises include: crunches, double crunches, crunches with your legs extended, toe reaches, oblique crunches, side crunches, bicycle, and then repeat. You finish up with criss cross ankles and flutter kicks.

This is a nonstop 10 minutes of concentrated ab work! I rate it advanced and you really accomplish a lot in only 10 minutes. As always Autumn is motivating and provides great cuing & form pointers. I received this DVD to review.

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The 21 Day Fix system is a series of seven workouts (plus several optional routines) plus a nutrition plan designed to change your body when followed as specified for 21 days. The workouts are led by Autumn Calabrese, who teaches each routine live with a group of approximately six background exercisers. In general, Calabrese sets up each move and then walks around the room, offering words of encouragement and pushing the class members to perform.

10 Minute Abs Fix is one of the add-on workouts for 21 Day Fix, and the theme (each workout has a theme) is "Earn the Body You Want." This routine is optional in the 21 day rotation. It has no warm-up or cool-down. One of the background exercisers, Cat, does modify some of the exercises.

Calabrese moves steadily from exercise to exercise, completing each without rests, and then returning to the beginning to repeat the entire series once. The exercises are listed below.

Crunches
Crunches with legs in table top
Crunches with right leg raised
Crunches with left leg raised
Crunches with criss cross
Crunches with toe tap
Twisting crunches (legs raised)
Oblique crunches (legs to one side)
Bicycles

After the second round, Calabrese introduces a "Bonus" round with two exercises performed leaning back on the elbows, leg crosses at the ankle and flutter kicks.

Overall, this was an okay routine for a quick abs workout focused solely on crunches, but there was certainly nothing unique, new, or different about it.

Instructor Comments:
I find Autumn's instructor to be just okay. She does mirror cue, which is nice, and she offers decent form pointers at times. But I'm not a fan of the walk around the room style of instructing, which comes across more like a drill sergeant to me; I find it much more motivating when the instructor does the workout right along with me the entire time. Also, I don't like the ways in which Autumn says things that could unnecessarily lead you to push yourself to injury, such as "you can do anything for 60 seconds!" (no, sometimes you can't).

Beth C (aka toaster)