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“Fitness” is an elusive term covering a vast array of

attributes: flexibility, cardiovascular endurance, muscular

endurance, strength, power, balance, coordination, body-fat

percentage and more. While its generally accepted that multiple

30-60 minute sessions per week are optimal for producing

results, the truth is that it’s possible to do a great amount

in far less time.

EVERYONE has five minutes a day…the only question is, can

anything really useful be done in just 300 seconds?

The answer is a resounding “yes”, but we need choose our

exercises carefully. If there is such a limited amount of time,

the best choice is to pick the most important muscle group.

Chest? Back? Shoulders? Legs? All wrong. The abdominals are the

most important muscles in the body. In no particular order,

they:

1) Protect the low back.

2) Are vital to sports performance, transferring power from the

lower to upper body.

3) Aid digestion, and massage the internal organs.

4) Are important for proper, healthy sexual function.

5) Are “the window of health”—we judge fitness and health more

rapidly with a glimpse at the waistline than any other single

indication.

6) Are vital for posture, which increases physical energy and

mood.

7) Are the linchpin of your entire fitness program. You’ve

never seen someone with toned abdominal muscles and flabby arms

and legs, have you? The reverse is not true.

8) Are the most important muscle group for physical

attractiveness in men or women. No matter the wonderful

definition of arms or legs, if your gut is sagging, you have a

problem!

There are other reasons, but one of the best is the fact that

of all body parts, the abs tend to be the least favorite body

part to work. They’re hard! That reason alone should be enough

to motivate you: anything other people don’t like working is a

golden opportunity for you!

But how can you do anything useful in just five minutes? One

daily approach is to perform five minutes of the toughest ab

exercises you can find, and a fantastic tool for this is a

“Roller Wheel” available for five dollars at any sporting goods

store. Not the fancy ones, just the simple get-on-your-knees

variety. Try this: perform one rep, and take a breath. Then do

two reps, and take two breaths. Then three, and take three

breaths…and so on until you can’t go any higher. Then, drop

back to one rep, and start climbing again. When that gets easy,

take one breath for every two reps.

An even better method is to break up your exercise into

multiple daily sessions. The roller wheel is useful here as

well, but you might want to investigate some of the powerful

“Vacuum” exercises from yoga, or the dynamic-tension style

“stomach flattening” exercises. In these, you exhale all air,

and flex the abdominal muscles for several seconds. Believe me,

if you do these properly, even without aerobic exercise your

waistline will decrease!

While there is no serious disagreement that longer sessions

produce better, and more balanced results, the busiest man or

woman on earth can find five minutes a day…and sometimes, that

toehold is what it takes to get you started on a new, healthier

lifestyle.

About The Author: CST is a NY Times bestselling

author, dual black belt, yogi and Circular Strength Training

instructor. He created the Five Minute Miracle exercise

program. Learn more at http://www.lifewrite.com

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