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Add variety to your fitness routine with these body-weight exercises that develop core stability and cross-body coordination.
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Building core strength is important whether you go to the gym or not. Here’s why engaging your core matters and how to get it done, according to experts.
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Dana Santas, a mind-body coach for pro sports teams, shares a short but surprisingly challenging workout that will help you beat the winter blues. The at-home routine strengthens your core using only a paper plate.
I've curated lots of exercise routines here, but this has to be one of the most imaginative and accessible.
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If the goal of your workout is to walk away with a chiseled six-pack, you’re missing the point.
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Standing core exercise is a great way to target, well, almost everything! These fast, effective options are creative and fun.
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The diagonal muscle orientation is proof that the human body is designed to rotate—and why anti-rotation and rotation coaching is important.
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Core exercises can improve your posture, make everyday activities such as bending or twisting much easier, reduce low back pain, and even improve your balance and lessen the risk of falling. Core work should be part of a well-rounded workout routine.
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What do slouching, back pain, and a middling forehand or weak shot off the tee have in common? Often it’s a weak core—the girdle of muscles, bones, and joints that links your upper and lower body. Your core gives you stability and helps power the moves you make every day. Whether it’s bending to pick up a laundry basket, swinging a golf club, paddling a kayak, or reaching to pull a vase from the top shelf of a cabinet, a strong and flexible core makes the move more fluid, efficient, and robust. Strong, well-balanced core muscles can also improve your posture and help prevent back injuries. And if back pain does strike, core exercises are usually part of the rehab regimen.
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The best exercises for core muscles are the ones that strengthen several core muscle groups at the same time. Examples of these exercises are bridges an
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Many people have been moving less since the pandemic, and one consequence may be a reduction in core strength. But there are a variety of exercises you can do to focus on improving your core.
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Most people, especially those of us hunched over keyboards all day, could do with mastering the playful handstand we remember from childhood.
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Crunch no more! In this learn-by-doing workshop, discover 20 core exercises that will not only challenge you and your clients, but will drastically improve their posture, mobility and overall strength! Finish with a brand-new toolbox of killer core exercises.
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An anatomical understanding of how movement controls the body’s stress response system.
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The plank is one of the most common core and ab exercises performed every day in ab workouts. The problem is, there are a lot of mistruths about the exercise that simply are not to be believed. In this video, I break down the truth about planks so you can separate the fact from the fiction when it comes to what this exercise is actually good for.
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Loren Landow shows some progressions for core training movements that he uses with his athletes.
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Core strength is essential for good posture and the prevention of back pain. Here are four exercises to help you activate and strengthen your deep core.
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Guilhem Cauchois from Cirque du Soleil's TOTEM demonstrates his workout routine for back/core strength. For part 2 of Gymnation's TOTEM interviews, go to htt...
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All runners – well, all exercisers, really – know they should do core work. But if you are anything like me, without some guidance you'll run out of ideas after the plank and some crunches
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