That core umbrella includes your internal and external obliques, the muscles that wrap around either side of your abdominal area. These muscles are responsible for bending your torso forward and ...

Ready to torch your obliques? I added this simple standing ab exercise to my routine for a week. Here’s how I got on.

Internal obliques: These run diagonally from the lower ribs to the pelvis and help with rotation and lateral flexion of the spine. External obliques: run diagonally from the lower ribs to the hips ...

I felt this one in my obliques The oblique muscles run along the side of your torso. You have internal and external obliques. Your oblique muscles control the stabilization and rotation of your ...

Our core is key for everyday movement, but when most of us train it we tend to just do exercises that isolate our ‘superficial’ ab muscles, like the rectus abdominis and external obliques.

Planks are one of the GOAT exercises when it comes to strengthening our core, but this bad boy will particularly fire up the internal and external obliques. Its greatness doesn’t stop there ...