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core exercises
Bird Dogs: Use Them to Build Stability and Strength
Whether you have lower back pain or not, better spinal stability should be a goal to strive for and bird dogs can help with this.
Rocco Venizelos
4 Core Exercises for Pull-Up Strength for Women
Follow these exercises to strengthen your abdominal muscles and get your first pull-up in no time.
Sophia McDermott Drysdale
Include Rotational Movements In Your Training
Strengthen your muscles and joints to handle rotational movements to benefit you in sports and in life.
Emily Beers
Do You Know What Your Core Really Is and What it Does?
These movement screens will allow you to assess your core stability and conduct core strength tests. See if you know how to use and move your core.
Jeff Kuhland
Eccentric Abdominal Training
Granted, abs are made in the kitchen, but they’re forged in the gym!
Gareth Sapstead
Bruce Lee's 3-Minute Workout
Of all the methods we’ve come across for fitting in fitness, none are as convenient and easily applied as Bruce Lee’s morning static contraction circuit.
Shane Trotter
Chair Meet Pillow Meet Towel Meet Workout
Exercise variations to do at-home using household items because simplicity and resourcefulness are better than excuses.
Idalis Velazquez
The 3 Core Amigos: Brace, Rotate, Resist
These movements are the basics before you start getting fancy with anything else and they should never be forgotten.
Tom Morrison
Front and Center: The Best Exercise You Are Not Doing
If your goal is to move well, improve your core and posture, and get strong, this may be the best exercise you are not doing at the moment.
Matt Beecroft
Develop Strength Down to the Core
A simple way to activate your core is to hold yourself up when you exercise—no irony intended.
Emma Oko
4 Core Strengthening Exercises You Can Do Anywhere
A strong core is the foundation of a healthier and stronger body and the key to improving your overall fitness.
Idalis Velazquez
3 Core Exercises to Help You Ditch the Crunches
It's time we stop thinking of the core as just a six pack.
Amanda Thebe
No Crunches Please: A 3 Phase Core Workout
Your core does a lot more than help you sit up, so here's a workout that will engage it in every other way.
Justin Lind
Push Up Progressions for Everyone
The push up is a fairly advanced exercise, and can be taught in a sequence of steps to build up muscle memory, ability, and strength.
Amanda Thebe
Grace and Power: Coiling Core Traveling Lunges
The key to moving with effortless power like an athlete is to teach the lat to engage as a core muscle.
David Weck
Preferred Expert Methods for Training the Core
A discussion of preferred methods for training the core for performance both on the field of play and in the weight room.
#ThinkReps
Train Your Gymnastic Core: Stability, Rotation, and Bowing
A few sets of sit ups every now and again do not meet the training needs of your core.
Chris Lofland
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