Ihad my first baby seven months ago and since then I've been rebuilding my core.

I’m finally seeing some progress and feeling stronger than I did a few weeks ago, but one core exercise in particular has gotten really boring: planks.

While planks are an excellent deep core exercise, I find them tedious. You may like

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I decided to switch the move out for a few standing core exercises and it made a huge difference to my motivation.

Here’s why I’ll be coming back to the

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