I love training my core (the muscles around my stomach), but sit-ups and crunches can get a bit repetitive. I was worried that my core sessions were getting a bit boring and my progress was plateauing ...

You don’t need to crank out endless situps or planks to train your core. In fact, some of the best core exercises don’t look like traditional abs movements at all. Think weighted carries and ...

This workout involves a lot of standing side crunches and woodchop moves, and I really felt it in my obliques by the end of the 10 minutes. The obliques are the muscles that run along the side of your ...

Addison Aloian is the associate health & fitness editor at Women’s Health, where she writes and edits across the health, weight loss, and fitness verticals. She’s also a certified personal trainer ...

While you can knock out quite a few ab moves using no equipment at all, when I'm really trying to increase my core strength, I like to reach for some weight. Turns out, there's a lot of weighted ab ...

Pump up your lower arms and give Popeye a run for his money with the nine best dumbbell-only forearm exercises and workouts!

YOUR CORE TRAINING routine needs to evolve beyond bodyweight. Whether your goal is to train for aesthetics or performance (hopefully, you'll be concerned about both), you'll only get so far by running ...

One 2019 study, published in PLoS One, found that an eight-week core training program improved balance and core endurance ...

THERE ARE FEW physical attributes guys care about more than a strong chest. Bulging biceps and chiseled abs round out the remainder of the torso, sure—but as anyone who's seen a superhero movie can ...

To help build a resilient body that performs well on the road, Tamir created this circuit of weighted ab exercises. The moves prepare you to take on challenges that test core stability. For instance, ...

Staying physically independent is important at any age, but once you reach 60 and beyond, strength exercises that target ...