Core Exercises Missing From Your Training Routine

There are perhaps more exercises for the core than any other body part. But, sometimes more can be less. With so many movements to choose from, it's easy to miss exercises, or even entire categories of core training, that could exponentially increase your strength and definition.

Despite all the choices out there, the two most common components of core training these days seem to be the crunch and the plank. I'm not going to tell you that crunches and planks are useless or dangerous—both are great tools to have your arsenal—they're just not enough on their own!

In my experience, it's more helpful to think of core training in terms of attributes you're trying to build, rather than muscles. In particular, I recommend you have each of the following elements in your core training:

• Stability
• Compression
• Endurance

Here are my favorite movements in each of those categories, along with guidelines on how to program them. You can either include one from each category in your...

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