Why I Stopped Doing Sit-Ups and Started Doing These Core Exercises Instead

Exercises like dead bugs help lengthen and strengthen the hip flexors in a controlled position, which improves form and can help offset the effects of sitting too much, adds Dickinson. Lie faceup, ...
Women's Health

6 Core Exercises to Take Your Abs Workout Routine to The Next Level

Lately, my core routine has felt staler than week-old sourdough bread. Sure, classic moves like crunches, Russian twists, and planks are great (and effective!), but in order to reap the gains of ...
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11 Bodyweight Core Exercises More Effective Than Sit-Ups

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Dead bugs improve core stability and coordination by ...
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Isolation Exercises Are Essential to Maximize Your Workout Gains

YOU CAN CLASSIFY exercises in a number of ways—by muscle group, movement pattern, or implement used, for example—but one of the most basic methods is whether it's a compound movement (using multiple ...