Whenever I start working with a new personal training client, I’ll usually have them do some variation of a plank. They’re a great exercise to test core strength and stability, they’re easy to modify for total beginners, and you can make them more challenging with different forms or added hold time.
Planks are far from the only exercise that will strengthen your core, though. Muscles like your rectus abdominis, transverse abdominis and internal obliques are responsible for stabilizing your body during movement, so it’s important that we train them in multiple positions and in a variety of different ways.
