Try these moves to whittle your waist and enhance crucial strength. Many abdominal workouts focus exclusively on your six-pack, but in truth, your core is 360 degrees of muscle, tendon and ligament encircling your middle. When we talk about the core, we’re referring to your abs, your hips and your lower back — foundational elements for...
Add a stability ball to your plank training and work your core and more!As if planks weren’t hard enough, here are three new moves to amp up your core training using a stability ball. The ball forces you to engage more muscles in order to balance on an unstable surface, which — when added to...
Add these three moves to your workout for taut six-pack abs.Even though it’s impossible to spot reduce, certain abs exercises do emphasize different portions of your core. To hone in on your lower rectus abdominis (your six-pack muscle), add these exercises into your program.Reverse Crunch How to: Lie on your back and extend your arms...
Attack your abs from all angles with this at-home circuit workout.If you were a high school student in the late 1990s to early 2000s, you were likely witness to a short-lived (and ill-advised) fad: the midriff-bearing prom dress. Fast forward to now, and while a tight midsection is still all the rage (and good for...
Coupled with the power of Pilates, this band workout will give your midsection a unique pick-me-up.Resistance bands, although frequently used for legs and arms, rarely get used in ab training. But these take-anywhere tools offer continual tension throughout the concentric and eccentric parts of a repetition, resulting in better strength gains. Now pair these bands...
Develop a strong core with four-time figure Olympia champ Nicole Wilkins' abdominal workout.Nicole Wilkins’ diligence keeps her at the top of her sport, and it’s also what gives her those enviable abdominals many of us are currently missing post-winter indulgence. But she admits she has to stay on top of her midsection to keep it...
2014 Olympia Bikini champion Ashley Kaltwasser shares her secret formula for sculpting sexy abs.Ashley Kaltwasser not only has an enviable booty, but she also possesses a rock-hard midsection that many women envy! So we got her to share her best training tips for abs and show us her all-time favorite moves to get a strong...
Here’s a fast, do-anywhere routine for developing a marvelous midsection, whether you’re a beginner or know your way around the gym.Bringing out what nature intended calls for exercises that not only hit your abs from various angles, but also work other body parts. Well-defined abs come from reducing the body fat that’s covering them. In...
Get a firm and functional core in just three weeks with supersets.Training 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 –...