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Alice Porter

Strengthen your core and boost your stability with these weighted abs exercises

Woman doing a sit-up with a dumbbell.

Having a strong core can boost your stability and balance, and improve your form when doing exercises like squats and lifts. As such, it's well worth adding some core strengthening exercises into your routine.

Doing sit-ups and crunches is one way to strengthen your mid-body muscles, but if you want to challenge yourself—and make sure you're getting progressively stronger—you should try using weights. 

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