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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Anna Bartter

Move Over, Sit Ups: 7 Best Core Workouts For Ab Strength In Your 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, and Beyond

Best core workouts: Woman doing a crunch.

Remember when working out your abs meant tacking a few crunches onto the end of your workout? Yep, us too - and it's not news that this didn't really work for any of us. Thankfully, over the past few years, core workouts have evolved, as our knowledge around the body and how it works has changed, and now, we're all more tuned in than ever to the importance of a strong, stable mid-section and how to achieve it.

And if you're still labouring under the misapprehension that 'core' means defined abs or a six-pack, we'd (politely, of course), ask you to leave the 90s mindset where it belongs, and get with the programme: our core is about so much more than that.

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