(VIDEO) Ronda Rousey Abs Workout

Mark Carrington | August 20, 2015 | Workouts | No Comments

Ronda Rousey Abs Workout – A Man Amongst Women

Ronda Rousey has gotten plenty of critical acclaim over the last 12 months, from both men and women across the sports and entertainment realm. WWE superstar and former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar had this to say:

“I think she’s a super athlete in a weak division – I really do. She is a man amongst women in the women’s [bantamweight] division and I take my hat off to her.”

So who is she? Ronda Rousey is an American mixed martial artist, judoka and actress. She is the first and current UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion, as well as the last Strikeforce Women’s Bantamweight Champion. In 2012 her talent single-handedly forced the creation of a women’s division in the UFC and she became its first champion. She won bronze in Judo in the Beijing Olympics.

In the July ESPYS (sponsored by ESPN) she beat Floyd Mayweather for Best Fighter and Serena Williams for Best Female Athlete – some achievement for someone that nobody knew a few short months before.

How did she get to the top? Life as a child was tough – her father committed suicide when she was 8. Her mother was a world champion at judo. Her own bronze medal (first for a US female since judo entered the Olympics in 1992) in Beijing was hailed as success – Ronda saw it is failure. She was homeless and broke and working as a bartender in downtown Los Angeles.

“I really felt like all of my efforts were a waste, because what did it really do for me? If you’re sitting with an Olympic medal in the backseat of your car and that’s where you’re sleeping tonight it really makes you think about if you did the right thing or not,” says Ronda

She joined a gym and made the transition from judo to mixed martial arts fighting (what used to be called cage fighting). Her key to success lies in her training ethic and most of her training is bodyweight training rather than weights-based training

“I’ve worked harder than any of these girls possibly could in their entire lives and I’ve sacrificed more than they ever could,”

Watch this Abs workout video – she puts in an INSANE level of effort. Watch carefully how the muscle groups are worked progressively firstly in one direction and then by varying angles. The best part – you can do a lot of those exercises yourself at home. Start easy with crunches and work upwards. I would skip the medicine ball parts.