Sit-ups are a classic core-strengthening exercise, great for working the abdominal muscles near the surface of your torso.
You don’t crunches, sit-ups and planks to increase your core strength and definition, just take this 12-move standing ...
Ready to torch your obliques? I added this simple standing ab exercise to my routine for a week. Here’s how I got on.
Sit-ups tighten and tone the abdominal muscles that run from beneath the sternum to above the pelvis. This results in a flatter stomach and, if practised along with plenty of aerobic exercise ...
“Your abdominal muscles play an integral part in stabilizing ... you are really engaging your obliques in a way that sit-ups and planks cannot do,” says Steve. Don’t be surprised if you ...
No matter which variations you follow, crunches have the advantage over sit-ups of being able to better target abdominal muscles. "Because the movement is smaller, you can control momentum more," ...
As those gradually tightening flexor muscles pull inactive limbs forward, they can curl and hunch our neutral sitting postures almost into fetal positions, a process Stocking calls “fetal-i-zation,” ...
This core workout led by Marnie Alton requires no-equipment and is all standing. Expect barre and dance-inspired movements.