Exercise & Fitness Tips : Core Training Exercise Routines

Hi I’m Ashley Gas, strength and conditioning specialist, with brilliantathlete.com. Core exercise routine, what is that? Well your core basically refers to your body, minus your legs and your arms, so it’s the front, sides, and even the back, so that’s your core. So when you’re building a core exercise routine, you wanted to choose an exercise that train different parts, your stomach, your sides, and your lower back.

So let’s start with an exercise that you can do for your stomach, this is a fairly basic exercise to do. But it’ll help with lower stomach posture and it will also help with low back pain, it’s called thin tummy. All I do is I take a breath in, and I exhale, pulling my belly button in towards my spine so I’m creating a thin tummy, and you can hold that for 5-10 seconds depending on your level of experience. That’s one exercise, another one is a side bridge, so I’ll do a side bridge with my legs straight, so I’ll start in my form in my elbow, I’m going to lift my hips up of the ground, so my feet and my elbow are stabilizing me. I keep my tummy tight, and you’ll feel this throughout the side of your stomach, so that’s the side bridge and you can hold that for several seconds, or you could do your reps a little faster. Now another exercise for lower back can be something very basic, where I lie on my stomach, I have my forehead on my hands, thin tummy, and I just lift my leg up.

You’ll feel this in your bum and it also helps with low back control, so again my tummy is thin, I lift up my leg straight up of the floor so I can feel my butt doing the work. I would do several reps on one side, and then I would switch over to the other side. So again the key points there, when you’re building a core exercise routine is to choose exercises that train the front, the sides, and the back of your body. For more resources on this, you can contact me at brilliantathlete.com.