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Looking for some abdominal exercise inspiration? Between packed teaching schedules and clients with roving attention spans, who among us isn’t! We asked Taylor Phillips, a Power Pilates–trained instructor who recently joined Equinox Fitness Clubs as a senior trainer, to share her five favorite ab-busters. Try these moves on your clients, or let her variations inspire you to create a few new moves of your own.
1. The Hundred: Begin vigorously pumping arms to 5-count inhale, 5-count exhale, as in the traditional Hundred. For last 30 counts, slowly lift arms with resistance to ceiling on inhale, slowly lower arms to hips on exhale. Take 5-counts to lift, 5-counts to lower.
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