At Your Desk Abs

Sitting at your desk doesn't mean you can't work on toning your mid-section. You can work your belly without your boss ever knowing that you are doing it! All you have to do is pull your navel in towards your spine, the most basic Pilates move.

1. Sit up straight, keeping your back away from the back of your chair.

2. Exhale and pull your abs to your spine without curving your back. It should feel like you are bracing yourself for a punch to the stomach.

3. Focus on your low abs. You can hold these in while you breath.

4. Breath into your back ribs, where ever you have ribs you have lungs. (This is a nice stretch for your intercostals, the muscles in between your ribs.)

5. Hold for 30 seconds. Do twice an hour.

Obliques

To challenge your obliques (the abs on the side of your torso) a little more, simply tilt your torso to one side and hold for 30 seconds. Then tilt your torso to the other side and hold for 30 seconds.