Muscle & Fitness Hers South Africa

SPECTACULAR ABS WITH CIRQUE DU SOLEIL

You're the star of the show — when you train like the ripped, gravitydefying performers of Cirque du Soleil! We're not talking pantomiming, though. With artists/athletes performing hundreds of shows a week across the world, these trapeze artists, unicyclists, contortionists, high fliers, and more are athletes to their core — that's why we're in awe of their daily abs routine.

We tracked down Bryan D. Burnstein, head of Cirque du Soleil performance science, while he was onsite in Las Vegas to design a core routine that works every square inch of your abs and back.) performances wherever your travels take you. Though you may not be the next high-wire act, you crush your core just like the pros do.

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