6 Perfect Exercises To Work 360 Degrees Of Your Core Body

A fast search by Google for "core exercises" will leave you with millions of different ways to get your trunk solid.

A fast search by Google for "core exercises" will leave you with millions of different ways to get your trunk solid. And it makes sense: Nearly a dozen different muscles make up your heart, all of which need their own set of tailored exercises. But forget to browse through all million outcomes: You really only need six moves to effectively light up your entire heart.

Your heart can be broken down into three sections: your upper abs, your inner obliques, and your "deep four" (including the pelvic floor, diaphragm, multifidus, and transverse abdominis). You'll want to reach each of these three parts on every abs day you put your body through to improve your core to the max. This means engaging in a number of different moves — some of which individually hit these pieces, others that would at once get to all of them.

This six-move series — trainer Meg Takacs care — is everything you need in seven minutes flat to get a full core workout. Follow the video below, and kiss Google's big quest goodbye.

Try this full core exercise at home with 6-moves

1. Hollow rocks: align your glutes, straighten your arms and legs to create a hollow "V" body shape. Rollback towards the neck, and keep the legs straight. Think of crunching your belly button into your backbone, holding the stress in the middle. Let the strength of your legs push your body back and forth, making sure to let the floor just brush your feet and shoulder blades. Place your hands by your chest for adjustment.
2. Single leg sit-ups: Bent on the floor with your knees, roll up through your spine, and touch your hand on the opposite foot. Twist your body as you crunch out from your heart. At the opposite hand repeat.
3. One push-up into four Mountain Climbers: do a push-up starting at a high plank. Then loop through four climbers to keep your core strong and pull each knee into your elbows. To adjust, drop down to your knees and rise up from there, drive through your mountain climbers into your high board, and spin.
4. Low plank oblique crunches: Start with your shoulders stacked in a forearm plank. Add your knee (on the same side of your body) to the side of your elbow, squeezing your obliques. Hold your body parallel to the ground and square your shoulders and hips to the right. Sides Switch.
5. High plank trunk rotations: begin in a high board and twist your body to one side, stretch your lower leg below you to meet your upper arm. Tap your hand to your knee to adjust, instead of stretching your leg all the way out.
6. Side plank crunch: Snap your top knee into your elbow from a side plank, pushing out your obliques. Make sure to never let that hit the ground with your foot. Place your top foot on the ground in front of your shoulder, lower and lift your hip to the floor for adjustment.