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

One popular fitness expert shares the best home ab workout and 7 intense lower ab exercises, for a combination that hits your entire core.

Bored with mat-based ab workouts? Standing exercises can offer the long-awaited variety you need! Photo: Getty Images Today, ab workouts are on the agenda—so it’s time to hit the mat and get started, ...

It can be hard to carve out time in your busy schedule for strength training, especially if you’re a newbie and it feels overwhelming to get started—or you don’t even know where to start. That’s why ...

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Denise Austin has instructed simple, effective fitness routines for decades. She’s shared a workout for balance and mobility, ...

Often, the way we work out, it’s almost as if it could have an invisible meridian dividing the upper and lower halves (you know: arm day! leg day!). But central, quite literally, to everything is the ...

WHAT DO DEADLIFTS, squats, rows, slams, and even overhead presses all have in common? They all depend on the stability and strength of your core. A strong base requires strong abs. This muscle group ...

Celebrity trainer Yasmin Karachiwala highlights five underrated Pilates exercises for a stronger core. These precise, ...

If you’ve grown bored of your basic mat routine for core workouts, incorporating resistance band ab exercises can help you switch it up and even intensify your results. The versatile, simple, and ...

Leg lifts or leg raises work the core as well as the hips and low back, making them a great move to master for improved overall strength. While situps and crunches work the abs, they don’t recruit ...