Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MD The transversus abdominis (TA) muscle is the deepest of the abdominal muscles.

"While you can actually feel your rectus abdominis and your external and internal obliques with your hands, you can't palpate [i.e. touch] your transverse abdominis because of how deep it is," she ...

The best core workouts will help you build strength and stability throughout your entire core, which includes your abs (your rectus abdominis, obliques, and transverse abdominis), but also other ...

Build strong core muscles without weights, just using these three crunch variations from a functional training coach.

Rectus abdominis muscle strains are common and debilitating injuries among competitive tennis players. Eccentric overload, followed by forced contraction of the non-dominant rectus abdominis during ...

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.