Some moves were just made to turn your health gains upside down. Enter the Swiss ball pike. The instability of the surface (ie, the fact that you’re all over the shop) forces you to engage your core.

You deserve a better ab workout than crunches. Strength training can help you build an athletic core. Equipment like a slam ball or medicine balls provides a more dynamic workout for gains. Stability ...

Whether you're switching up your typical strength training routine or rehabbing after injury, introducing instability into your workouts will have you shaking and aching like never before. There are a ...

As runners, we prefer to be out there running. But we know, by now, that strength training is important for improving performance and preventing injury, so we make the time. Still, run-of-the-mill sit ...

There are many ways to do a plank, from straight-arm, side, and one-legged planks to plank knee taps and jacks. These moves ...

Bored of your regular ab workouts? These medicine ball exercises for beginners spice things up—*and* target your core in all the right places. Core exercises used to be my favorite, but hours of ...

Pilates has taught us that you don't need to invest in expensive equipment to get a great core workout at home. But one simple tool — the humble Pilates ball — may be worth grabbing anyway. A Pilates ...

Effective abdominal exercises should train stabilization of the spine. This is not accomplished through sit ups and crunches, but rather through exercises like the Swiss ball roll out. Before starting ...

Reformer Pilates has taken off in recent years, and it’s easy to see why. Machines such as the FOLD Reformer light up muscles you didn’t know you had, while sharpening strength, mobility, and control.