When it comes to working your core, not all ab exercises are created equal. That said, one that gets you an awful lot of bang for your buck is the bodyweight plank, and here at Tom’s Guide, we love nothing more than exploring the benefits of the humble plank, in all its variations.
Up this week — the bear plank. A bodyweight exercise that focuses on working your mid-section, namely the internal and external obliques, the deep transverse abdominis, and the outer rectus abdominis (or six-pack muscles). But what would happen to your core if you did bear planks every day for a week? To find out more, I unrolled my best yoga mat, and got to work.
