You'll need more than just crunches to build a strong, functional core. Try these moves to upgrade your workouts.

This standing abs routine strengthens your core, boosts posture, and lays the foundation for a stronger, more balanced body.

Danny Saltos is a NASM-certified personal trainer and health coach, specializing in strength training and cardio. With 18 years of experience, Saltos has been training clients since 2006, both in ...

No offense to sit-ups, planks, and hollow holds, but basic core exercises can feel drab day after day. They work the abdominals, but if you’re looking for stronger, sculpted abs, let me introduce you ...

These beginner-friendly kettlebell core exercises are more effective than crunches and situps at toning the abdominals and improving balance, strength and posture.

As you pass 50, your body doesn’t bounce back the same way it used to. Strength training, consistent activity, and recovery ...

Use your kitchen counter to firm your core after 50. Try 7 safe standing moves plus daily habits that flatten a stubborn ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Sit-ups are one of the most basic forms of core ...

Fitness experts often emphasize the significance of having an engaged core during a workout. However, it’s not always clear what that means, and engaging your core correctly is easier said than done.

Ever see an exercise described as an “abs exercise” in one place only to find the same exact movement categorized as a “core exercise” elsewhere? The two terms are often used interchangeably by the ...

Flabby arms are often the bane of our lives as we age. But there’s plenty we can do to banish so-called bingo wings, by ...