A strong, athletic core comes from properly using your ab muscles and pelvic floor to stabilize during exercise, not from tons of crunches or sit-ups.

What is your core, and what does it mean to engage it? Learn from Pilates experts about core anatomy, how to engage your core, and why you should.

"Engage your core" is a common exercise cue meant to encourage support of your spine and contraction of your trunk muscles. This article explains how to engage your core, what the core muscles are ...

Worthington explained to Insider both how to activate your core muscles properly, and also how to train them, working across three planes of movement.

Instructors often emphasize engaging your core during workouts, but knowing how to engage your core correctly is easier said than done.

You probably know that strengthening your core is important, but do you know how to activate your core properly? Find out.

The typical cues for bracing and tightening may not come into play on the run, but core work outside of your running shoes is crucial to performance.

After speaking to experts on how to go about properly engaging my core, it seemed like I'd been targeting the wrong muscles all along. I had abandoned my transverse abdominis (TA or TVA).

A tight core can impact your posture, and cause hip and low back pain. Learn how to stretch the abs, plus the 7 best ab stretches if you are sore or sit a lot.

It turns out that muscle memory is not just in the mind. It's in the muscle fibers, too.