What is it about strong abs, everyone wants them.  I get requests in my classes for ab strengtheners all the time.  Here are some recent ones I’ve been playing around with:

- Come into a Goddess Legs, or a plie position.  Holding the blocks between your hands again, arms parallel to the floor, twist slowly from side to side.  Keep it controlled by doing it with your breath - exhale into the twist and inhale back.  Fold over into Wide Leg Forward Bend for a rest, and then do another set.

- In plank position, or Dolphin (on your elbows and forearms) let one hipbone drop a few inches toward the ground and then the other.  Do the hippy hippy shake a few times until you feel it.

-  Lie on your back with knees bent, feet on the mat.  Clasp your hands and steeple your fingers.  Twist, dropping your hands to one side, letting your opposite shoulder come off the mat.  Your hands may drop to the mat if your spine comfortably twists that far.  And then twist to the other side, going back and forth slowly.  2) If you want to do more, hold a block between your hands and do the twists with your feet a few inches off the floor.  Now you won’t be able to twist as far, but it will take much more control to do the twist.

- And a good one to alternate with the previous is this one I saw in a recend Self magazine.  Lie on your back with your elbows under you.  Your elbows should be at right angles, under your shoulders.  Then lift your hips up off the ground so that your body is in a line.  You can hold here and breath or alternate lifting one foot of the ground and then the other. 

Enjoy!