Want to Build a Strong Core? Try These Jefit Exercises

A strong core is important for several reason. First, it can help to keep back injuries at bay. Secondly, all bodily movements, performed in and out of the gym, are more efficient with a strong, powerful core. The core is made up of as many as 35 muscles that connect into the pelvis. Think about all the muscles that help to tie the upper body to lower body…those are the core muscles.

The following list of Jefit exercises can be used as part of your strength training routine. When adding exercises to a routine, remember one of the keys is to work the core or midsection using multiple movement patterns, seen below.

Movements Involving the Core

• Flexion
• Lateral Flexion
• Rotation
• Anti-Rotation
• Stabilization

Jefit Exercises for Developing a Strong Core

Bodyweight Only

• Air Bike
• Leg raise
• Side Bridge
• Decline Bench Leg Raise
• Plank with Side Kick
• Seated Bench Leg Pull-In
• Abdominal Pendulum
• V-Ups

Medicine Ball

• Medicine Ball Overhead Slam
• Medicine Ball Rotation
• Stability Ball Medicine Ball Throw
• Medicine Ball Overhead Throw

Kettlebell

• Kettlebell Advanced Windmill
• Kettlebell Figure Eight
• Kettlebell Turkish Get-Up Squat

Other Equipment

• Barbell Side Bend
• Barbell Ab Rollout
• Weighted Decline Crunch
• Cable Pallof Press with Rotation
• Parallel Bar Hip Raise

The twenty core exercises, seen above, are some of the more popular Jefit exercises. Try a few of them in your next strength training program.

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Michael Wood, CSCS

Michael Wood, CSCS, is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and Content Manager for JeFit app. Michael is a former Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at the University of Connecticut and Exercise Physiologist at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. He is the Founder of Michael Wood Fitness, named twice to "Top 100 Trainers in America" by Men's Journal and voted Best of Boston by Boston Magazine. Michael previously taught at the University of Connecticut and Boston University. He is the author of TBC30: 6 Steps to a Stronger, Healthier You.

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