We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: when building a strong core, sit-ups aren’t always the best option. Not only can regular sit-ups and crunches put strain on your lower back, you’re only really working your abs muscles.
The dead bug, on the other hand, targets many of the muscles in your core, including your deepest layer of core muscles and your obliques. You can read what happened when I did 100 dead bugs a day for a week here, but to mix things up, I added ipsilateral dead bugs to my workouts. Read on to find out what happened.
