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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images Bored of planks and crunches? Why not try mixing things up with a killer ab ...

George Hood completed around 1,500 sit-ups per day to train for the feat. An Illinois man who spent the past several months training seven hours a day, including 1,500 sit-ups daily, has broken the ...

Getting abs takes time and effort, so wouldn’t it be convenient if one exercise alone could sculpt toned and visible abs? Known as a compound exercise, the plank targets multiple core muscles at once ...

Changes to the exercises used for the military fitness testing are here to stay. It will take some time and practice to get used to replacing sit-ups and crunches with more static exercises like plank ...

Of all the physical indicators of workout success, a strong set of abs might be the most coveted. Of course, that’s not to say that if you don’t have visible abs, you don’t have a strong core (whether ...

Trainers see many of the same mistakes regularly when it comes to core training. Personal trainer Faisal Abdalla told Insider three of the most common ones, and how to fix them. For example, you ...

Discover the ideal plank hold times after 50, plus the 30 and 60 second benchmarks that show your core is stronger than most.

When I heard the record for a woman holding an abdominal plank was measured in hours and not minutes (a whopping 4 hours 19 minutes and 55 seconds), I honestly couldn't believe it. I get the full-body ...