Total Cardio & Core

A 30-minute cardio and core session, starting off super strong with mountain climbers! Are you ready to GLOW?

Stef Williams, fitness trainer at weglow

A workout by
Stef Williams

Type
On demand class
Length
30 minutes
Level
All levels
Stef Williams of WeGLOW fitness app for women working out

Total Cardio & Core Workout: Your 30-Minute Game-Changer

Looking for a heart-pumping, ab-sculpting workout that fits seamlessly into your busy week? Meet WeGLOW’s Total Cardio & Core Workout: a 30-minute sweaty session designed to energize your body and ignite your fitness journey. Whether you're at home or hitting the gym, this no-equipment, dynamic bodyweight-only workout is perfect as a standalone challenge or a cardio session built into our super successful 6-Week Summer Sculpt Challenge.

One of our most popular ab workouts for women

Cardio Meets Core for Total Fitness

We know you love to feel sweaty, but cardio is so much more than boosting your heart rate and finishing with a glow! Frequent cardio sessions will help to improve endurance, boosting your mood, and torching calories to help you meet your fitness goals. Pairing cardio with deep core exercises not only strengthens your abs but also improves posture, stability, and balance, setting a strong foundation for all types of movement.

The Total Cardio & Core Workout strikes the perfect balance between explosive cardio moves and isometric holds, ensuring you stay engaged from start to finish. You'll leave feeling sweaty, recharged, and one step closer to your goals.

Benefits of bodyweight workouts to lose weight

One of the biggest advantages of this workout? No equipment needed! Bodyweight training makes it easy to stay consistent with your fitness routine, wherever you are. Plus:

  • Flexibility: Workout at home, in a park, or at the gym, or on your travels.
  • Low barrier to entry: Perfect for beginners and advanced levels.
  • Functional strength: Enhance real-life movements like balance and coordination.
  • Engaging muscles to feel the burn: Abs-focused exercises plus cardio-based circuits help to burn extra calories 

What to Expect in Total Cardio & Core

Looking for workouts to lose weight or a sweaty session that also targets your core? Here’s what to expect…

Mountain Climbers
Get your heart rate soaring with this high-intensity cardio move that also activates your abs, shoulders, and legs. The dynamic nature keeps your body guessing—and sweating.

Side Planks
Target obliques and build deep core strength while enhancing stability. Bonus: You'll improve posture, strengthen your backs, hips and pelvic floor, and help reduce the risk of injury. 

Jumping Squats
Feel the burn in your quads, glutes, and hamstrings while giving your cardiovascular system a serious boost. Explosive and empowering, this move will leave you feeling strong and energized.

Alternating V-Ups
This dynamic core exercise tones your entire midsection, including hard-to-reach lower abs, while improving flexibility and coordination.

Each circuit in the Total Cardio & Core Workout is thoughtfully designed to challenge your endurance, build strength, and keep you motivated. The result? A session that’s tough, empowering, and anything but boring.

Cardio & Core: A Winning Combination

Not only does cardio help with weight management and improving heart health, but it also complements strength training by enhancing recovery and endurance. Pairing cardio with core work amplifies the benefits:

  • Burn Fat: Dynamic moves like jumping squats and mountain climbers help you burn calories fast.
  • Build Core Strength: Strong abs improve your balance and power across all exercises, and help achieve a sculpted pysique.
  • Feel Empowered: Explosive movements leave you sweaty and strong, boosting your energy and confidence.

Ready to Glow?

The WeGLOW app is packed with ab workouts for women like the Total Cardio & Core, designed to meet your unique fitness goals. Explore complete programs like the 6-Week Summer Sculpt Challenge, or add standalone workouts to your calendar to create a personalized plan.

Each workout is crafted to help you stay consistent, inspired and motivated—no matter where you are on your fitness journey. Start building your strongest, most confident self today with WeGLOW.

Find your glow today. Download the WeGLOW app and get started!

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FAQ's

Yes. Women over 50 benefit enormously from strength training for bone density, muscle retention, and metabolic health, but need programming that accounts for joints, recovery, and starting points. WeGLOW includes strength programmes appropriate for women over 50, with lower-impact options, sensible progression, and trainers who understand training in midlife and beyond. The focus is on building strength safely and consistently rather than pushing maximal intensity.

Current guidelines suggest aiming for around 150 minutes of moderate-intensity activity per week during pregnancy, broadly the same recommendation as for non-pregnant adults spread across most days of the week. "Moderate intensity" means you can still hold a conversation while moving; if you're too breathless to talk, it's a sign to ease off. This can include a mix of walking, swimming, prenatal strength sessions, yoga, or pilates, and you don't need to do it all in one go, three 10-minute walks count just as much as a single 30-minute session. Consistency matters more than intensity here. Shorter, regular sessions tend to feel more sustainable than ambitious workouts you can only manage occasionally, and they help with energy levels, sleep, mood, and recovery after birth. Some days you'll feel up for a full session; other days a gentle walk is plenty. As always, your healthcare provider is the best person to confirm what frequency and intensity is right for your specific pregnancy. Giving birth is a massive workout for your body so making sure its fit and healthy is really important.

WeGLOW offers varied training styles (Strength, Pilates, cardio, yoga, barre, meditation and more), weekly new content, and built-in tracking (PBs, badges, stats, progress photos). Most importantly, 98% of women that use our fitness app and stick to their plan see results in 8 weeks1

Yes, we think so, It offers goal-based programs, from strength training and yoga to pre or post-pregnancy fitness. The app tailors workouts to your fitness level, tracks progress, and includes nutrition guidance, making it a top choice for women seeking a complete fitness solution.

The best home workout apps for women offer follow-along sessions that need little or no equipment, with options for different fitness levels and time constraints. WeGLOW provides guided workouts you can do at home. Strength, mobility, and conditioning led by expert trainers, so you get studio-quality coaching without a gym membership. Sessions range from quick routines to full programmes, making it easy to stay consistent around a busy schedule.

The best fitness app for women is one built specifically around female physiology, goals, and training needs rather than a scaled-down version of a generic app. WeGLOW is designed for women at every stage, combining structured strength training, guided workouts led by expert female trainers, and programmes that adapt to your level - whether you're starting out or training around hormonal cycles, pregnancy, or menopause. Unlike one-size-fits-all apps, it focuses on sustainable progress and training that actually fits a woman's life.

The best strength training app for women combines progressive overload with programming that respects how women build strength. WeGLOW offers structured strength programmes designed by female coaches, with clear week-by-week progression, form guidance, and routines for both gym and home. It's suited to complete beginners learning the basics through to experienced lifters wanting structured progression, without the intimidation factor of typical lifting apps.

A good fitness app for women is built around women's bodies, goals, and lives not adapted from a default male template. That means programming that accounts for hormonal cycles, life stages like pregnancy and menopause, female coaching, and a supportive rather than punishing approach to fitness. WeGLOW was created with this in mind, offering strength and workout programmes designed by women, for women, that prioritise long-term health and confidence over short-term aesthetics.

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