Forget the gym — you can build core strength and sculpt your abs with this 15-minute bodyweight workout

A woman lying on the floor tensing her abs in a crunch.

You can achieve almost any fitness goal using just bodyweight exercises at home, but abs workouts in particular can be highly effective without needing to use weights or any other kit. They can also be very quick while being very effective, because you can exhaust the abs muscles in no time at all using the right exercises.

At the end of this 15-minute abs workout from fitness trainer Fraser Wilson you will have no doubt that you’ve worked hard enough to strengthen and sculpt your core muscles. It’s a challenging session where you spend almost all of the 15 minutes doing exercises, with just a few short rest periods.