While doing crunches and situps may activate the abs, these exercises don't target as many core muscles—like your obliques—compared to functional core exercises. Men's Fitness asked Travis Brown, M.S.

However, doing crunches with bad form may do more harm than good — and people often perform them incorrectly. If you don’t do them right, you will likely feel tension in your neck, so be sure ...

This is a low-impact workout, suitable for most people, but if you’re pregnant, or returning to fitness following an injury, ...

Crunches and sit ups are great for working the more surface-level abdominal muscles, like your rectus abdomins (or “six-pack”). If you want to target deeper core muscles, these exercises will do the ...

The ab crunch. You can add weight if you want, or even extend the number of crunches you do. This is all about mind-muscle connection; minimal movement with big results. So concentrate on the ...

Most fitness experts will tell you that if you play golf, dealing with forward-head-posture issues are likely to be magnified ...

Many of us assume that the key to getting six-pack abs is to do a ton of crunches. And so, with beach season in sight, we do sit up after sit up in an attempt to chisel our core. Yet, despite all ...