Best core exercises

[V]

What are the best core exercises in your opinion? Could be weighted or not.

[knowles.ja]

Deadlift, ATG squats, and standing press among others.

[papi93]

Stabilization - Deadlifts

Stabilization - Ab Wheel Rollouts
Side Flexion - DB Side Bends, Stabilization - Side Deadlifts
Rotation - Full Contact Twists
Flexion - Weighted Decline Situps

[RU4A69]

Weighted declines

Good mornings

Trap deads

Hang squats

Lunges

[papi93]

Weighted declines

Good mornings

Trap deads

Hang squats

Lunges

What is a hang squat?

[RU4A69]

What is a hang squat?

An overhead squat, such as is part of a snatch, with the bar held in wide grip lockout overhead.

[wimp2pimp]

Are we talking about the core as in abs and lower back? What about knee raises and weighted (or not) hyper extensions? Don't those workout the lower back and abs at a much higher intensity than deadlifts, squats?

[SoMdHunter]

An overhead squat, such as is part of a snatch, with the bar held in wide grip lockout overhead.

Sounds dangerous! Why would you want to do squats with the bar so high over your head? They are hard enough with the bar resting on the shoulders and back of the neck!

[CoQ10]

The plank is a great exercise to test core endurance, IMO.

-C10

[TXScout2]

Yeah plank is great, you canb progress to lifting one arm and the opposite leg off the ground while stabilizing. Swiss ball crunches, medicine ball twists, and weighted hanging leg raises also work very well.

[Staz]

Sounds dangerous! Why would you want to do squats with the bar so high over your head? They are hard enough with the bar resting on the shoulders and back of the neck!

It's about as dangerous as any other compound lift. Scary as hell if you do it wrong, helpful as anything if you do it right.

It's used by Olympic Lifters around the world. It forces you to keep your upper body as straight as possible, recruiting the core more than that of a typical squat...

[Kiwi_]

Are farmer's walks any good for the core?

[tarun_s]

it depends what kind of strength you're talking about. there's postural strength, where your abs and glutes are weak and overstretched (for the majority of the people), and in that case you dont want to do too heavy compounds, you want to focus on stabilization exercises like planks and reverse crunches to get stabilization strength up. otherwise, deadlifts and squats and the like are great strengtheners.

[2MuChBoDyFaT]

kickbacks, bicep curlz and pec deck


EDIT:

[J.L.C.]

OH Squats

OH Lunges

Front squats

BAM!

[GoJu]

It's about as dangerous as any other compound lift. Scary as hell if you do it wrong, helpful as anything if you do it right.

It's used by Olympic Lifters around the world. It forces you to keep your upper body as straight as possible, recruiting the core more than that of a typical squat...

Dan John says the overhead squat gives you 'DAD' strength, lol! but yes OH squats are a great strength builder of the core, hip flexors, lower back and shoulders, here's a pic of Zhang Guozheng (chinese olympic gold medalist) doing an overhead squat with 528lbs at about 170lbs bodyweight!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dehwang/285597189/

aside from Overhead Squats, the best core strengtheners are probably:

deadlifts
back squats
front squats
decline twisting situps
hypers

[papi93]

An overhead squat, such as is part of a snatch, with the bar held in wide grip lockout overhead.

Overhead squats. Thanks.

[Choktu]

Overhead Lunges!? That sounds rediculously hard. anyone have a picture of that?

[HoosierBoy]

Sounds dangerous! Why would you want to do squats with the bar so high over your head? They are hard enough with the bar resting on the shoulders and back of the neck!

Because they're the best exercise there it (IMO).

[J.L.C.]

Overhead Lunges!? That sounds rediculously hard. anyone have a picture of that?

I'll try to get a vid of em this week.

[papi93]

Because they're the best exercise there it (IMO).

It requires a very strong lower back, shoulder flexibility, and balance.

[alexturner022]

give a try to plank - 360 . exercise your core without any much efforts and off the floor !!!!!

[carolmonthero]

Plank, V-sit hold, plank on a swiss ball, lying glute pushup, stiff-legged V bends.

[Paddyirishlad]

Turkish get ups, L-sits, dragon flags, front squats, windmills.

[Garage Rat]

hard style planks(do a search)not the planks that you can do for hours.
Any lifting/exercises without a belt including farmers walk,suitcase walk,front squats,zercher lifts,deadlifts.
If you dont feel your mid section and or "core" your probably going to light.

[alexturner022]

plank exercise is the one of those workouts which seems very difficult to everyone. we have to put efforts from our arms,wrists and whole core as well.in my last post i was talking about plank-360 it was just a personal opinion . as the name suggests it is a planking device but with lots of benefits and less effort able gimmick. i am using it from 37 days and found it appropriate.do comments and share your own views about it.

[Franzisk2100]

My favorite core exercise is leg raises on wall bars. The wall bars behind prevent the use of swinging and momentum instead of strength, which is inevitable when performing this exercise on a horizontal bar.

youtube.com/embed/qCNJu3THZaU

[HartHrob]

A bit fruity but I like the ab wheel and leg raises(OTB)

[erigni]

Front levers.

[taperedtam]

Front levers.

lol, except front levers are INCREDIBLY hard and 95% of gym-goers can't do them. You have to be pretty good at calisthenics/gymnastics to do that exercise