Ab Workouts at Home | 4 Core Workouts You Can Do At Home

In order to run faster, longer, and stronger, you need much more than just strong legs; you need a bulletproof core as well. As you strengthen the muscles in your abdominals, lower back, and glutes, you’ll develop more power, stability, and endurance. In fact, your abs will provide the support you need to sprint faster, power up hills, and stay tall, mile after mile.

While a strong core is important, we’ll be the first to admit that standard planks and sit-ups can get real boring real fast. So we pulled together four different ab workouts you can do at home, since the upcoming cold winter weather makes it harder to want to leave your house. (And, despite the availability of COVID vaccines, some people are understandably not hitting the gym as much as they used to pre-pandemic.)

These core circuits are sampled from , the total training system for runners, and created by Jeremy Shore, a certified strength and conditioning specialist who has spent more than 20 years helping people enhance their running and athletic performance

How to use this list: First, scroll down to review four different ab workouts to try depending on your goal: power, strength, stability, or balance. Then see the moves you need to master below as demonstrated by Lindsey Clayton, senior trainer at Barry’s in New York City. You’ll see one exercise listed as the “hub exercise”—this is the main move that you’ll repeat after every two supporting exercises. By repeating the hub exercise, you’ll focus your efforts on building power, strength, stability or balance while the non-hub exercises help train additional muscles and give you an added challenge. To build your core strength even more, you can find similar at-home ab workouts in the Run 360 program.

How to do each workout: See the exercises and circuits below. Repeat each exercise for 30 seconds, followed by a 15-second rest between moves, for a 5-minute circuit. You can add one circuit to the end of your run as a finisher or use it as a part of your cross-training workouts.

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