{"id":68403,"date":"2025-08-15T07:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68403\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T07:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:54:11","slug":"this-10-minute-abs-workout-has-over-100-million-views-heres-what-happened-when-i-tried-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68403\/","title":{"rendered":"This 10-minute abs workout has over 100 million views \u2014 here\u2019s what happened when I tried it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Popularity is by no means a guarantee of quality, but when a workout has over 100m views on YouTube, it certainly indicates that it\u2019s worth giving a go. This 10-minute abs workout from fitness trainer Pamela Reif<\/a> has currently clocked up an incredible 107 million views, so I tried it myself to help it on its way to its next hundred million.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t need any equipment to give the workout a try yourself, but it\u2019s worth rolling out one of the best yoga mats<\/a> if you\u2019re going to be doing it on a hard floor, as all the exercises in it are done on the ground.<\/p>\n

Watch Pamela Reif\u2019s 10-minute abs workout<\/p>\n

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The workout contains 20 exercises, and you do each of them for 30 seconds without any rest at all. That\u2019s right, zero rest, which makes this a challenging session even if you\u2019re already pretty fit, so I wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s the best place to start if you\u2019re new to abs workouts \u2014 give this 10-minute session<\/a> a go instead, perhaps.<\/p>\n

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If you are keen to try Reif\u2019s workout, then I\u2019d advise scanning through it before you start so you know what exercises are involved. Since you don\u2019t get any rest breaks, you have to transition between moves quickly, which I found tricky with exercises like the oblique crunch that I wasn\u2019t instantly familiar with.<\/p>\n

I certainly found the workout challenging when I tried it. Here are my main takeaways from tackling it.<\/p>\n

This is the hardest 10-minute abs workout I\u2019ve done<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve tried a lot of abs workouts in my time, from a wide range of fitness trainers, and this was the hardest one yet, purely because of the lack of rest.<\/p>\n

In most workouts, you do an exercise for 30-45 seconds, then get a 15-30 second break, which I really rely on to calm the burning sensation in my abs. With this workout, you never get that chance to soothe the burn, so it keeps building as you move onto the next exercise.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s only one thing to do if it gets too much, which leads to my second takeaway\u2026<\/p>\n

I took extra breaks<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t imagine how many times I\u2019d have to do this workout to get through it all without some extra breaks, but at my first attempt, I paused the video several times just to have a bit of a rest.<\/p>\n

This was the only way that I was able to actually have a proper go at some exercises and get through more than a handful of reps, so it definitely helped make the workout more effective for me to take the extra breaks, and I\u2019d advise doing so if you need to as well.<\/p>\n

It works your whole core<\/p>\n

The upper and lower abs and obliques are all targeted quite directly in the workout, through crunches, leg raises, and side crunches, and you also hit the deep core through holds like the plank.<\/p>\n

For such a short workout, it\u2019s definitely effective on this front, and if you\u2019re able to power through this session two or three times a week, then it would make a big difference to your core strength over time.<\/p>\n

Look out for neck strain<\/p>\n

There are a lot of crunches in the workout, and when you\u2019re already struggling with the difficulty of the session, it\u2019s easy to start reaching with your neck rather than using your core muscles to lift yourself up.<\/p>\n

I certainly noticed I was doing this, and it was one reason I took extra breaks, just to help reset my form and make sure I wasn\u2019t straining my neck.<\/p>\n

It made me look forward to doing the plank<\/p>\n

You know it\u2019s a tough workout when the plank is by far and away the easiest move in it, and I was relieved to see it pop up on the top right of the screen as the upcoming move.<\/p>\n

Compared to 30 seconds of bicycle crunches or jack-knifes, a 30-second plank felt relaxing, and doing it as the last move of the session let me finish on a high note of actually doing an exercise for the full 30 seconds.<\/p>\n

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