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Mobility Β· Core

Plank

Difficulty Core stability

How to perform it

Forearm support with the body in a straight line from heels to head, abs braced, glutes squeezed. Activates the deep core (transverse abdominis, rectus abdominis, obliques). For "reps", count breaths or add the shoulder-tap variant.

Video demo

Equipment

No equipment (bodyweight)

Muscles worked

Muscles and artwork credits
  • Erector spinae
  • External obliques
  • Front delts
  • Gluteus maximus
  • Internal obliques (not on the surface map)
  • Rectus abdominis
  • Transverse abdominis (not on the surface map)

Artwork: Ryan Graves, CC BY 4.0, modified

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