Our core is made up of four muscle groups that are essential to everyday movements, like walking and lifting. And when people think about core strengthening, crunches are often the first thing that ...

The crunch is a classic ab exercise. It’s also pretty straightforward: Lie on your back with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor, contract your abdominals, and lift your shoulders, neck, and ...

The basic crunch is an excellent abdominal strength training exercise to work your upper abs. However, done incorrectly, crunches can give you backache, put strain on your neck and create tension in ...

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer Planks are better at building core strength because they engage the deepest layer of your ab muscles.Crunches mainly target the surface abs—the “six-pack” muscles—and are ...

For a long time, I thought I had to do crunches or situps to work my abs. I didn't enjoy them so much, but they did help me keep my core looking defined. When I started training with Peter Lee Thomas ...

(CNN) — If you’re like most people, when you hear the word core, you probably think of six-pack abs. But your core is so much more than that — it’s the powerhouse that stabilizes, supports and moves ...