Love them or loathe them, planks seem to feature in most ab workouts. Yet as we get older, and our focus shifts to a more functional style of fitness, planks aren’t the gold standard. When we talk about functional fitness, we’re referring to building the muscles you’ll use in everyday life, such as when you’re carrying a heavy bag of groceries or lifting a grandchild up and out of their crib.
While planks are great at engaging the muscles in your midsection, they don’t train your core for how it’s used in everyday life.
