Standing core work or standing ab work is a surprisingly popular question that both coaches and google gets asked. So here are some standing ab exercises that you can use at home or in the gym.
So you’ve had enough of planks and dead-bugs, maybe your gym floor just isn’t clean enough or your had some sort of injury meaning you can’t sit down. Whatever the reason, its time to get off the floor and do some of the best standing core work available to strengthen your core. Here we’ve listed 20 extremely effective core variations you can use in your training (without sitting down). Also check out the core workout we put together for you to get done today.
Complete 3 rounds
Use the exercises above to train your core whilst standing, start doing these workouts consistently for a few months and you’ll see progress whilst likely improving your health.
Yes, but only if you pick standing abs exercises which are effective. When trying to find out if an exercise is effective our not, ask yourself if it applies any stress at all on the body. A lot of answers to this question focus on movements that apply zero stress and therefore create zero adaptation. This is why core work whilst standing with no equipment is not at all effective, no stress can be applied to the abs.
No. Please don’t do this movement.
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