Favorite core exercises?

ahjenny
ahjenny Posts: 293 Member
edited October 6 in Fitness and Exercise
I am doing well with cardio, arms and legs, but I'm having a hard time with my core. I do modified crunches, but I don't feel the burn like I think I should. I am working my back muscles, but I don't think I'm getting enough strength training in my back, either. So what are your favorite core muscle exercises or routines?

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  • lcoreo5
    lcoreo5 Posts: 216 Member
    planks are great! http://thefitdadsays.com/how-to-do-a-plank-and-plank-variations/
  • kjannan
    kjannan Posts: 248 Member
    www.randomabs.com have some cool exercises & every day they have a workout to do. I love the burn!!
  • PepeGreggerton
    PepeGreggerton Posts: 986 Member
    Planks, Side Planks, Renegade Rows, and Full Contact Twist.
  • stephanie_salvi
    stephanie_salvi Posts: 46
    I use The Women's Health Big Book of Exercises (I do the ones I can at home, I don't have a gym membership). It has thousands of different exercises for all different muscle groups. And I just make sure I mix it up. I have a hard time with my core, too, especially my back. This book really helps because there were so many exercises that I could just keep trying different ones until I found one that gave me the burn I was after.
  • lowliar
    lowliar Posts: 26
    Bicycles, leg lifts (lying on your back), russian twist, planking, situps, and mountain climbers. Those are my personal favorites, and they hit all areas of the abdomen. I also like ab wheels. I do my exercises for a minute each with a 30 second rest in between.
  • pmich08
    pmich08 Posts: 193
    Planks ftw!

    Try Jillian Michaels Six Week Six Pack, even if you don't like workout videos, many of the moves she uses really ick butt for your core.
  • PsiChi
    PsiChi Posts: 157
    Figure 8's, decline sit ups, sit ups, reverse situps, barbell side bends
  • Dustinryan24
    Dustinryan24 Posts: 233 Member
    squats, deadlifts, pull-ups, planks, side planks, mountain climbers. these work your entire core.. crunches are bull****
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,993 Member
    Squats, deadlifts, incline bench presses, standing military presses, kickboxing.


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  • teagin2002
    teagin2002 Posts: 1,900 Member
    I used to teach this in the belly dance class to gain control of your abdomen muscles like a belly dancer!

    You will need to do the following exercises:

    1. Stand up rite with your feet shoulder length apart. Let your hands and arm lay beside you.
    2. extend your torso and reach with the top of your head upwards elongating your neck and picking up your shoulders.
    3. this time move your pelvis to the back sticking your butte out, in then next exercise you will do the opposite with your pelvis.
    4. now do the twist and keep doing it.
    in the first position you should feel the burn in below your ribs to above your belly button, in the second you should feel it below.

    I also do four different kind of sit-ups then side tilts, and then follow all this with back bends for stretching.

    These are the ones I find the most results with :bigsmile: and give that sexy hourglass figure we all :love:
  • cxxviii
    cxxviii Posts: 40
    Stability ball. everyone should have one. I have three and use them around the house instead of chairs. That way, I'm exercising even when I think I'm not.
  • Azdak
    Azdak Posts: 8,281 Member
    bosu squats, bosu squat with shoulder press, bosu squat/torso rotation with weighted ball, medicine ball throws--overhead, sideways, sitting on a stability ball, against the wall, against the floor--the possibilities are endless.

    I don't really consider ab crunches to be "core" exercises at all. Personally, I don't think stationary planks are all that much better. I've done planks before and they have never improved my ability to do any other "core" exercises. OTOH, doing those core exercises has always improved my plank performance.
  • Mios3
    Mios3 Posts: 530 Member
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