This exercise helps you work on your core, shoulders, and upper body muscles, which are essential for swimming well. By making these muscles stronger, swimmers can maintain better posture and ...

Although anti-rotation core exercises have been used by athletes for years, the term has become trendier recently—particularly among “fitfluencers” promising solutions to your back pain. Yet most ...

If the goal of your workout is to walk away with a chiseled six-pack, you’re missing the point. A strong core results in fewer injuries, better posture and balance and less back pain. To perform well ...

Fast swimming comes from powerful strokes. Powerful strokes come from a strong core. And a strong core comes from more than just a few crunches in the gym. Here are five core exercises for swimmers.

In the fifth installment of our six-part core challenge, Tonal Instructors Dr. Liz Letchford & Coach Paul Wright take you through movements to ramp up rotation in your center. This workout consists of ...

Everyone knows running burns a lot of calories. But if running is not your thing, it helps to know what you can do instead to ...

You don’t need to crank out endless situps or planks to train your core. In fact, some of the best core exercises don’t look like traditional abs movements at all. Think weighted carries and ...

In the second of a five-part series, Dana Santas shows how building strength in the side abdominal muscles can improve stability in movement and reduce low back pain.

A trunk rotation is a type of strengthening exercise that focuses on specific parts of your upper body. Standing and sitting variations exist. Your trunk is the region of your body located above your ...

Head to nearly any packed gym, and you’ll probably see at least one woman working on her core. Maybe she’s whipping out some bicycle crunches, or holding still in an impressively-long plank. There are ...