You'll need more than just crunches to build a strong, functional core. Try these moves to upgrade your workouts.

Strengthening your obliques can help improve core stability, correct your posture, protect your spine, and enhance your ...

A strong core helps with posture, balance and stability, and can help prevent back injury and reduce existing back pain. Along with the lower back and glutes, the abdominal muscles are the primary ...

A strong core helps with posture, balance and stability, and can prevent and reduce back pain. To effectively strengthen your core you need to work the low back, glutes, pelvic floor and the ...

YOUR CORE TRAINING routine needs to evolve beyond bodyweight. Whether your goal is to train for aesthetics or performance (hopefully, you'll be concerned about both), you'll only get so far by running ...

Why: The bicycle crunch challenges your rectus abdominis (the outer six-pack core muscles) and your obliques, as well as the hip flexors and glutes. Doing the exercise standing up is easier on your ...

Over 50? Flatten your belly with 5 simple chair moves that fire deep core muscles, protect joints, and take about 15 minutes.

Standing ab exercises offer a functional and comfortable way to strengthen your core, improve posture, and boost balance, ...

Skip the floor work. This 10-minute standing ab workout builds balance, stability, and core strength for adults over 50.

As you pass 50, your body doesn’t bounce back the same way it used to. Strength training, consistent activity, and recovery ...

Ab exercises tend to conjure up images of endless sit-ups, leg lifts on a mat and planks. While these movements have their place, standing ab exercises work your core muscles more closely to how they ...

There are many ways to do a plank, from straight-arm, side, and one-legged planks to plank knee taps and jacks. These moves ...