Your abdominal muscles surround your trunk between the rib cage and pelvis and keep your abdominal organs safe. Your core abdominal muscles also support your trunk and allow movements while keeping ...

Diastasis recti is a common symptom of pregnancy and it occurs when your abdominal muscles separate, which can cause your ...

In the second of a five-part series, Dana Santas shows how building strength in the side abdominal muscles can improve ...

The stomach vacuum exercise involves breathing out air while sucking in the stomach to engage the core. It is an isometric exercise to strengthen the core muscles. The abdominal muscles, part of the ...

How you breathe during strength training directly affects muscle engagement, core stability and power output. Dana Santas ...

When I’m working with clients, one of the most common things I see when someone is having trouble engaging their core is that they tend to hold their breath. Why is this important? Because breathing ...

Identifying bulging abdominal muscles can be a bit tricky at first glance, especially since it’s easy to blame your belly pooch for bloating after eating a large meal. However, there are key ...

One part of training I always tell clients is most important to realize right off the bat: the body is highly integrated. Your body is interconnected from the top of your head to the ends of your toes ...

"Suck in your stomach" is a mantra we’ve heard so often around achieving good posture and a good figure that it’s become automatic for many people to constantly tighten their abs. But it turns out ...