What percentage of workout days should include core work?

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Monica LaMar · Answer

What percentage of workout days should include core work? Well, you use your core during every single exercise that you do when you're working out. Whether you're sitting on a physio ball like I am right now, I am working my core stability. Whether you're doing a chest press, you're working core stability. So that core gets worked every single time during every single exercise that you do, including cardio. Now, do you feel the burn as much as you do as if you were holding a plank? Probably not, but your core is constantly firing and being worked. So if you're asking for specific exercises, whether it's to get like a V taper, to work your rectus abdominal, your obliques, that's a little different. I don't believe in your traditional crunches at all because it puts too much pressure on the spinal cord. And I don't believe in doing a lot of rotational work either because that again puts a lot of wear and tear on your spine. What I do recommend is doing anti-rotational exercises such as planks, side planks, anything that fires that core, holding isometric holds of a band out in front of you to really fire that core because our spine already gets enough work as it is. But try those exercises out and let me know how you like them.

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