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The Best Core Workouts You're Not Doing Abdominals play a significant role in athletic and functional 
movements that we encounter daily. The exercises presented here are some
 of my favorite exercises for the abs and core and to develop abdominals
 that are both aesthetically pleasing and functional.

Wheel Outs: Abs, Lower Back, Obliques, Intercostals, Lats, and Shoulders
 This exercise is by far my favorite to incorporate into my workout 
between sets. I can take the wheel with me anywhere and I don't need a 
lot of space to do the exercise. Although I am showing a larger wheel in
 the video, a smaller single ab wheel works, too.

Wheel outs can be done no matter your level of fitness. If you are a 
beginner, you can start by only rolling forward 10-12 inches while 
maintaining a rigid core with your abdominals pulled in tightly. 
Remember to move your body forward. Do not reach forward with your arms 
because the idea is to get your body in a straight plane from your knees
 to your shoulders with your shoulders positioned directly above your 
hands on the wheel. Once you have mastered being able to do this 
"rolling plank" position for 5 sets of 10, you can begin to challenge 
how far you can reach your arms after you have achieved the straight 
plane position as listed above. Advanced exercises should aim for sets 
of 15-20 full-range reps.
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intercostals, lats, and shoulders. I love this exercise for so many 
reasons. Perhaps the most interesting thing is that as you move further 
from the body, the tension increases and causes the workload on the 
muscles to be increased. This is how the stresses of real life and 
athletics actually happen—we need movement, not static holds.

Beginners can do 2-3 sets, and advanced athletes can work up to 5 sets, or more.

Side Plank Raises: Trim Your Sides 
 This is another favorite if you want to trim your sides and kidney 
areas. This exercise will make those areas strong and activated. Having a
 strong core plays a huge role in posture and range of motion body 
awareness, along with muscle integrity.

Start out with your elbow on the ground (use a mat or towel to soften
 the pressure), and with your elbow and forearm on the ground, and your 
hand bracing against the ground, you will align your body on its side 
with your hip resting on the ground and your feet stacked on top of each
 other, with your ankles flexed. From this position, use pressure from 
your forearm/elbow and your feet to push your top hip towards the 
ceiling as high as you can then return to the ground, tapping your hip 
and repeating the movement.

It is important to stay aligned and not to roll over and point your 
navel towards the ground. This exercise mimics a real world motion that 
you might encounter and strengthens the muscles through a full range of 
motion. Beginners do sets of 5 reps, intermediate up to advanced can 
work up to sets of 15 or reps on each set. Do 2-3 sets for beginners and
 up to 5 sets for those who are advanced.

Reverse Crunch: The One Exercise You Should Do
 This exercise is great because it approaches training the abdominals 
in the order of the weakest to the strongest range of motion. The lower 
abdominal is a thinner muscle and has less range of motion than does the
 upper part of the abdominal. As a result, the upper ab tends to be the 
area most concentrated on in conventional exercises like the sit up or 
crunch. While both of those exercises are great, they leave out the 
lower ab. By inverting this exercise, we can train the entire abdominal 
chain, thereby actually teaching the abdominals to support the lower 
core and lumbar movement of the spine. If you can only do one exercise 
for your abs, this is the one to do.
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sets before increasing your reps. Begin by trying to do very small 
movements (as illustrated in the video) where you just focus on raising 
your hips and tucking, but keeping your lower back in contact with the 
board. Eventually, the advanced user is going to do 4-5 sets of 15-20 
reps in a full range of motion while fully engaging the lower ab and 
crunching the lower body into the upper body.

The Best Core Workouts You're Not Doing

The Best Core Workouts You're Not Doing Abdominals play a significant role in athletic and functional movements that we encounter daily...

The Best Core Workouts You're Not Doing

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