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

A strong core is basically the foundation that holds your body together. I mean, your abdominal muscles help with your posture, keep you walking and running, are activated when you breathe — it's ...

Skip the floor work. Try 5 standing exercises that target your lower abs, improve balance, and burn fat after 50.

It's easy to get fixated on fancy exercise equipment, but J.Lo's trainer David Kirsch just reminded us that sometimes all you need are a few no-frills drills and basic props to get in a good sweat ...

Doing ab exercises with just your body weight can be challenging in itself. But when you bring extra pounds into the equation, it's a whole new kind of burn. As celebrity trainer Gunnar Peterson told ...

The shift from crunches to functional movements is the most important change you can make for your long-term fitness. By ...

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

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

There are so many effective ways to work your core at the gym and at the home. You could grab a kettlebell and do a full-body routine with sneaky abs engagement, do bodyweight abs moves like plank ...

Celebrity trainer Don Saladino doesn’t like crunches. Instead, he prefers to “stir the pot," which refers to a total-body plank variation that is much tougher than its cooking-inspired name might ...

We'd never strong-arm you, but there are so many benefits to adding a medicine ball to your workout. (Getty Images) I'll admit it: For years, I avoided adding a medicine ball to my workouts. Frankly, ...

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