Low back pain ended Lotte Kopecky’s 2025 Giro d’Italia Women by the end of the fifth stage. For the first time in the past five years of her career at the top of the sport, Kopecky had to drop out of ...

A strong core helps with posture, balance and stability, and can prevent and reduce back pain. To effectively strengthen your core you need to work the low back, glutes, pelvic floor and the ...

Planks are widely considered by fitness experts to be a fantastic exercise to strengthen the muscles in your core and elsewhere, no matter your age or physical fitness level. There are numerous ...

Planks are one of the most effective exercises for strengthening your midsection, as they target all of your major core muscles: the transverse abdominis, rectus abdominis, external obliques and ...

Head to nearly any packed gym, and you’ll probably see at least one woman working on her core. Maybe she’s whipping out some bicycle crunches, or holding still in an impressively-long plank. There are ...