Combine both high plank and side planks for a real core burner!
Military planks are a core body exercise that targets not only all of your core muscles but strengthen and challenge your upper body as well.
Dead Bugs are a great exercise for learning to engage your lower and deeper core muscles. Slow and steady wins this race as if you move too quickly – you will likely lose that engagement if you are not proficient at using your core.
Twisting pistons are a body weight ab exercise that target the obliques. The move is functional, dynamic and challenging as well as raising your heart rate.
This challenging core exercise really requires some focus and stability!
Want an effective way to get that core working? Well this is it! The great thing about bosu leg lifts is that it is a very targeted exercise to get that abs working with minimal effort. The other awesome thing about the exercise is that it teaches you to do that posterior tilt or tilting your hips up to the sky which helps you better engage all of your core.
Having strong abs is important but a lot of the time we forget about those also important obliques that flank your six pack! This exercise is one you will be challenged by at the time.. and they will certainly let you know about it for days after!
This is a great exercise for engaging your oblique muscles. Evolutions of this exercise can involve dropping and elevating your hips from that standard straight bodied position.
Body weight exercises are the best way for PTs to illustrate that you can indeed to exercise nearly ANYWHERE at ANYTIME. I say nearly because a funeral or during a fire drill are 2 such examples of times and places that they are not appropriate. Where was I? Oh yes – Bicycles. Great core exercise that really allows you get those pesky obliques!
Working your abs and obliques doesn’t have to mean you must lay on the ground. This exercise allows you to stand up and really focus on maintaining your posture. You just need a theraband and something to hang it off. A post will be best!
A great safe abdominal exercise to work obliques, transverse abdominus & rectus! Resisting trunk extension and posterior pelvic tilt!
This is a great balance exercise for targeting your abs and more importantly – your obliques. You can mix this exercise up with a number of different variations from sitting on a bosu ball or bringing your opposite knee up as you twist.
A cool little variation to your standard plank, the side plank targets those obliques!
If this one annoys your shoulder, you can alter it so that you are on your hand as opposed to your elbow and forearm.
Dying Cockroaches.. Drunk Irishmen.. this exercise has had many a name.. but the purpose and benefits!
Yeah.. about the name of this exercise. It’s pretty straight forward. You are trying to reach your fingertips around the outer side of your opposing knee! I don’t know what you’re thinking?
Woodchops are a great exercise to get your core engaged – in particular the obliques!