Tone your core and lose belly fat with exercises like side planks and hollow holds. Lose belly fat fast by pairing your ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images When you don’t have hours each week to train, you need to be smart in your ...

Trim your waist with 5 joint-friendly standing moves that target obliques, boost calorie burn, and tighten your core after 40.

Brad: Right, but there are also other core muscles really important with core strengthening. And you got the oblique muscles, which actually run obliquely. And we also have the transverse band, which ...

Jakob Roze, CSCS, is a health writer and high-end personal trainer. He is the founder and CEO of RozeFit, a high-end concierge personal training practice and online blog. Your core is the central part ...

A few weeks ago I found myself in a bit of a huff and ranting to a colleague, as my deadlift progress had come to a sudden halt and my lower back was in pain. His blunt response: “Your core clearly ...

Case in point: You rely on your core muscles to carry you through the miles. And research shows that core strength training can improve the force you put into your steps, your overall energy transfer, ...

Head to nearly any packed gym, and you’ll probably see at least one woman working on her core. Maybe she’s whipping out some bicycle crunches, or holding still in an impressively-long plank. There are ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Sit-ups are one of the most basic forms of core ...

You’ve probably done thousands of crunches hoping to build a strong core, but this outdated exercise is actually one of the least effective ways to develop the deep abdominal strength that supports ...

When most people think of core exercises, they think crunches and sit-ups – possibly because the tactical professions have used them for decades. But given recent changes in military testing, the next ...

Ever see an exercise described as an “abs exercise” in one place only to find the same exact movement categorized as a “core exercise” elsewhere? The two terms are often used interchangeably by the ...