While practicing Pilates is an effective way to strengthen your core, you can build core stability, balance, and strength with more functional exercises.

Nothing will humble you like an exercise ball. Working with an exercise ball can also help you improve your sense of your body in space, a.k.a. proprioception, Jeffers explains. “Stability ball ...

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What’s the best way to build strong abdominal muscles? With sit-ups, right? Well, only up to a point. Performing a variety of abs exercises using solely your bodyweight can help improve your core ...

There are so many effective ways to work your core at the gym and at the home. You could grab a kettlebell and do a full-body routine with sneaky abs engagement, do bodyweight abs moves like plank ...

Modern fitness trends come and go, but core strength remains essential for everything from posture and travel comfort to everyday movement. Personal trainers increasingly rely on medicine balls ...

Almost every gym has a gym ball (AKA Swiss, exercise or stability ball), but you rarely see it used. That’s a pity because it adds another dimension to core exercises. “One of my favorite reasons for ...

I'll admit it: For years, I avoided adding a medicine ball to my workouts. Frankly, I was intimidated by the large weighted ball, imagining it was meant solely for hard-core exercisers with 18-inch ...

Fast, effective, and no basic movements.

Improve balance and posture with this core workout ...

Any Pilates fans out there will know what a difference a Pilates ball makes. Take my word for it: as someone who has done Pilates almost every week for the past 18 months, classes that include the use ...