Six Pack Abs Challenge - THE 200 REP AB SCORCHER!

Congratulations. [Music] Hey guys, Jeff Caval here from athletx. com here with Ben May, the winner of the first Mr. X of the Year award for his transformation that he made um in the last well he basically he he followed the program about seven months ago. Uh really he he did an amazing job.

You can read all about it over at the the blog from Athletics X about his specific numbers and his ability to drop you know almost what 15% body fat or 13% body fat and uh and really transform himself and get more muscular and lean. Well, Ben is here. He’s uh he’s been flown in here uh as part of his award for being u you know for his accomplishments to the Xbox spending a couple days with me. We wanted to take uh the opportunity to sort of create an ab exercise or do something for you guys that you would find valuable. I think now Ben went through the program.

One of his I guess favorite or one of the ones that he that that really worked I don’t know if favorite is the right word but worked his abs was the canoe exercise. Right. Show me the canoe exercise. So the canoe is like this as if you’re sitting in a canoe and then you pretend to paddle. Right.

So you’re working your obliques, you’re working your abs, you got to hold yourself sort of in that isometric position, but at the same time you’re working there. We kind of talked about he started to master that and get a little, you know, have that become a little easy. But the nice thing I like to think about with Athlet X is that the exercises that are in this program, not only are they unique and most of all uh very different from probably some of the things you’ve done uh in the past or you’re used to doing. But I like to think that they’re open-ended. When what I mean by that is these are exercises that can always be uh made to be harder and to adapt to your level of strength.

So we came up with an exercise here to modify the canoe and make it quite a challenge. I know since you threw it for the first time. Okay. So, uh, I don’t even know what you want to call it, but you know, maybe something called torture, but, uh, really what you’re going to do is go ahead and come and come back down. You’re going to start and it’s going to combine what we know as that roll up from the Pilates.

So, a roll up would be coming up here, trying to get some flexibility back here. A roll up. Now, you’d actually go piece by piece down to the ground, right? One vertebrae at a time, really working your abs. Now, I’m going to stop you.

Now, to hold that position, we know you’re working your abs. I can already see you shaking. Lift the legs up. Put your hands up on your head. Now, I want you to rotate down to the ground and rotate down to the ground.

Just like that. Now, no cheating. You can’t go and drop your elbows. You got to actually rotate your shoulders 40 times. 20 and 20.

All right. Now, crank them out. A little bit of a pace. There you go. Good.

Feet are up still. Abs are engaged. Still have the rotation. Still have that component of a canoe. I haven’t been counting.

When you get your 20 and 20, let me know. Five. Okay, now he’s going to come straight up again. Feet can touch the ground. He’s going to stretch one stretch.

Come back down. Keep it there. Stop again. Another 40. Guess how many rounds we’re doing this, Ben.

How many? We’re doing five rounds of this. So, you’re going 200 reps. Okay. This is going to be quite a challenge.

So, I want you to crank it out. Keep it going. I’ll sort of comment on how out of breath you are and how much, you know, close to death you are. But, uh, yeah, I’ll give him the play by play, but you just keep cranking out the exercise. And that’s 40.

That’s two rounds. I come up, he gets his stretch. He’s also going to get a better stretch each time because, uh, that’s one of the kind of principles of Pilates. As you continue to actively go through these motions, you will increase your flexibility through your low back. So, he’s in the middle of his third round here.

He’s going to get over the hump when he can finally get through this one. Good. He’s not cheating. You know, the cheat would be just to drop that elbow without a rotation. Come on, hang in there.

Two more. There you go. He’s getting his uh his fourth round of 40. And he’s still keeping good good uh you know, his good uh posture. He’s keeping his good technique.

Dropping just elbow to elbow, down to down. Good. He’s burning now. I see wincing in his eyes, so I know he’s he’s getting towards the end. Come on.

40 more. Now, treat these ones as the most important ones, right? Because these are the ones where you’re in the most amount of fatigue. These are ones that count. A lot of times it’s those other reps that get you to this point.

You know, they’re they’re just there to get you to the point where it really matters.

There you go. Now, how much easier is this than the the canoes? Easy. Right. So, basically, we took an exercise like the canoe that you were doing a great job on, but we’ve just elevated it to a whole another level.

And that’s the whole thing about Athletics X, guys, is that, you know, when you start the Athletics X program, there’s no this is a lifestyle change. This is there’s no end to this. There’s no like you’re you’re you start it and then you’re you’re done and then you go back to being overweight or out of shape, right? It it’s it’s a lifestyle and it’s it’s something that evolves with you. So, uh, if you’ve been on the fence about wondering about whether this program would work for you or whether you would outgrow the program, trust me, guys, you won’t outgrow the program, you know, I will make sure that Ben never outrows his program.

I mean, I’m going to always be able to challenge him. But that’s just one way that we have to, you know, with these open-ended exercises to be able to, uh, modify him and make him even more difficult. So, uh, Ben, thanks again. He did an unbelievable job. We’re going to actually come back here again.

We got two videos with Ben this week. A really cool workout that he wanted to do. He said, “Hey, Jeff, what if I have like uh I’m in class. I’m going to school. Um I need to knock out everything in one workout, like a total body workout.

What would you recommend? How would you structure that and come up with something really good? ” And we’re going to come back with that later this week in a whole new way. Um so double the double X destroyer, I think this one is called. So we’ll show you exactly what that’s all about.

But if you haven’t already, guys, head over to athletex. com, grab the training system that Ben May followed here to become Mr. Mr. ex of the year to drop uh you know an unbelievable amount of body fat to add lean muscle and to really uh you know just completely transform his body. Follow his same exact program.

Uh and you can get that over at athletex. com. Until then, we’ll see you guys in a couple more days with the double X destroyer and uh uh knock that one out of the park, too. So, thanks for watching, guys.

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