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The Ultimate Bodyweight Ab Workout
Read More: The Ultimate Bodyweight Ab WorkoutWe all know abs are made in the kitchen — but they’re also perfected during your ab workouts at the gym and at home. Nutrition and fitness are the dynamic duo you’ll need to rock a six-pack, if that’s one of your personal fitness goals. But there’s way more to prioritizing ab workouts than just for…
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2 Simple Moves to Build Core Strength
Read More: 2 Simple Moves to Build Core StrengthIf you’re a fitness junkie (guilty!), you know how important it is to build core strength for your favorite heavy lifts like squats, deadlifts and lunges. While these big moves do build core strength on their own, adding extra core work to your routine can make a huge difference in lifting form and personal records. …
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Cathy Serif’s Ab-Wheel Workout
Read More: Cathy Serif’s Ab-Wheel WorkoutThe ab wheel does what not many ab exercises can do — it works the entire core. When you perform movements on the wheel correctly, you activate your abs, glutes, lower back muscles and obliques as one unit. The truth is, however, it’s difficult to master the ab wheel. Oxygen Ambassador Cathy Serif knows this…
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The Anti-Movement Abs Workout
Read More: The Anti-Movement Abs WorkoutThere is an astounding lack of education regarding the true purpose of the muscles in your midsection, and in the interest of strengthening and sculpting via countless crunches and twists, standard workout programming has inadvertently marginalized some vital training techniques that can drastically reshape your waistline from the inside out — “anti-”exercises. Instead of initiating movement, these moves resist it, tapping…
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The 30-Minute Core Crusher Workout
Read More: The 30-Minute Core Crusher WorkoutYou could go about a core workout in one of two ways. On one hand, you could ramp up your reps while doing a who’s who of proven abdominal burners like crunches, reverse crunches, leg lifts, rope crunches and every other manner of bringing point A (your sternum) toward point B (your hips) until your…
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Supersets for a Tighter Core
Read More: Supersets for a Tighter CoreTraining your abs but neglecting your lower back is like going out in the sun without loading up on sunscreen: you might be able to get away with it for a little while, but your reckless ways will soon catch up with you – and the results won’t be worth it. It may sound like…
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Can Anybody Get Abs?
Read More: Can Anybody Get Abs?Back in the day, a set of six-pack abs was considered the highest achievement a gym goer could accomplish. These days, we know that fit bodies come in many shapes and sizes, but many trainees still strive to chisel out their abdominals. If that’s one of your goals, keep on reading! Whether or not genetics…
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7 Yoga Poses to Work Those Easily Overlooked Lower Abs
Read More: 7 Yoga Poses to Work Those Easily Overlooked Lower AbsIn yoga, we often talk about strengthening our core, but what does that mean, exactly? Oftentimes, when people are searching for poses to work their abs, they’re looking to achieve that coveted six-pack or V-cut. But all that is just aesthetics. Having a strong core has benefits that extend far beyond the way you look…
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12 Days of Gains, Ab Workouts for Women, Abs, Abs Exercises, Abs Workouts, Core, Core Exercises, Core Workout
Holiday High-Intensity Ab Circuit
Read More: Holiday High-Intensity Ab CircuitEveryone knows about Santa Claus holds his big old belly when he gives a hearty, jolly laugh. While humor and holiday cheer may not be our expertise, we’re real good at giving you something else that’ll make you clutch your abs. Oxygen Ambassador Tanya Lehman delivers, not a big bag of gifts, but an ab…
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The Partner Ab Workout for Core Strength and Stability
Read More: The Partner Ab Workout for Core Strength and StabilityAbdominal training tends to be a lonely endeavor. We’ll do bench presses, seated presses, squats and even curls with someone in tow who can give a spot and motivate us past sticking points — but then we take our mat and tuck off to a corner by ourselves to pump out sets of crunches, leg…
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5-Minute Plank Fitness Quest: Midpoint Check-In
Read More: 5-Minute Plank Fitness Quest: Midpoint Check-InIf you’re checking in to the 5-Minute Plank Fitness Quest today, you should be able to hold a plank for two and a half minutes without breaking form. For this midpoint check-in, evaluate your form — especially if you’re feeling aches and pains. Planking is all about alignment, so keep your core tight, back straight…
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The ‘Wheel’ Deal on Ab Wheels
Read More: The ‘Wheel’ Deal on Ab WheelsThere’s a saying that “nothing good happens after 2 a.m.” It’s usually uttered as a warning about staying out too late — but even if you’re at home, chillin’ on your couch, bad things can happen, too. For instance, you could get caught up in an infomercial selling you flat, toned abs: Just fork out…
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Weighted Core Workout with Bethany Davis
Read More: Weighted Core Workout with Bethany DavisBethany Davis is a mom of five with a passion for partnering with those who are embarking on a journey to better health. She constructed this functional weighted core workout with a five-pound dumbbell, though you can use a plate or medicine ball, too. In this core routine, there are four movements. Davis recommends performing…
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Six-Pack Boot Camp: 30-20-10 Glute, Ham and Ab Routine
Read More: Six-Pack Boot Camp: 30-20-10 Glute, Ham and Ab RoutineThe name of this workout tells the story. Three focused exercises — side leg lifts for the glutes, side-plank knee to chest for the abs and core, and inchworms to stretch the hamstrings and work the shoulders — are alternated with the classic isometric front plank. Rep counts decrease on the three focused moves (from…
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Ab Workouts for Women, Abs Exercises, Core Exercises, Core Training, Core Workout, Functional, Functional Workout
The Functional Kettlebell Core Workout
Read More: The Functional Kettlebell Core WorkoutYou could argue that no part of your body is more important to your body’s overall fitness and athletic performance than your core — and you’d be right. Your abs and lower back contribute to any exercise or physical activity you undertake, serving as a “power center” for every twist, turn, lift or leap you…
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Six-Pack Boot Camp: Full-Body Weighted Core Routine
Read More: Six-Pack Boot Camp: Full-Body Weighted Core RoutineDumbbells and weight plates aren’t just for working big muscle groups like the legs, shoulders and back. The core also can benefit greatly from added resistance, even just light weights. That’s the premise of this particular Six-Pack Boot Camp workout, which consists of five weighted exercises using whatever equipment you have available — a light…
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3 Standing Ab Exercises to Sculpt Your Core
Read More: 3 Standing Ab Exercises to Sculpt Your CoreIn daily life, you rarely find yourself crunching up off the floor to do, well, much of anything. And according to Chris Kolba, Ph.D., CSCS, physical therapist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, vertical training is a better route to a strong, toned core than crunching. “In most activities, the body is primarily…
