Let’s get the most important thing out the way first. You CAN NOT spot reduce fat in areas that you choose. Simply put, you can’t just do abdominal exercises and burn fat on your abs. To ‘tone’ means to see the shape of the muscle based on lowering your body fat levels. This plan is an ‘add-on’ to your current routine, to be done in conjunction with it to progressively take your core from where it is now, to a much stronger and tighter result.

The core is a complex muscle group and requires different stimulus’, movements and intensities to attack it from all angles. A lot of people don’t realise, but the lower back is also part of your core muscles and is often neglected. Even the glutes play a minor role in helping/assisting the core. Instead, you’ll find people doing endless crunches and sit ups in the quest for abs, it’s boring, repetitive and will leave your posture all messed up.

If you’re looking for a more structured approach towards the end goal of having much better core muscles, this is perfect for you. A 4-week plan where each week gets progressively harder, asking you to do more and more each time. The workouts themselves are designed in circuit format to also raise your core temperature, burn more calories and work more muscles at once.

Make sure you’re doing both workouts 2 times per week either at the end of your normal workout, or as a stand-alone workout.