Best Strong Core Workouts to Build Strength and Muscle

The lower abs exercises below are some of the best strong core workouts you will find.

These workouts are curated from some of the best athletes and coaches in all of CrossFit. A powerful core is key to many of the common fundamentals of CrossFit. In order to carve new abs, improve your core, and develop your midline, hitting your lower abs with a variety of workouts is important.

The core is a very crucial part of all functional movement in CrossFit. The difference between six pack abs and a powerful core is huge. One can have great looking abs but a weak core underneath.

Here some of the best strong core workouts to improve your CrossFit game.

LOWER ABS WORKOUTS, OHS

For time

21 Turkish Get-Ups, Right Arm
50 Kettlebell Swings
21 Overhead Squats, Left Arm
50 Kettlebell Swings
21 Overhead Squats, Right Arm
50 Kettlebell Swings
21 Turkish Get-Ups, Left Arm

“Getting those abs super strong!
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Besides all the upper body work I do every day, I add in abs every session as a finisher. I feel like it’s paying off!”

CORE WORKOUT FROM LAUREN FISHER

5 sets not for time of:
20 V-Ups
15 Tuck Crunches
20 Second Hollow Hold
20 Second Arch Hold

The Hollow Rock with Julie Foucher

Core strength Crossfit workouts, eight minute EMOM

10 hollow rocks
Ten toes to bar
10 second plank

Chris Spealler and Matt Chan demonstrate proper and efficient Knees to Elbow and Toes to Bar.

KNEES TO ELBOW / TOES TO BAR

lower abs workouts, for time

10 Chest-to-Bar Pull-Ups
20 Toes-to-Bars
30 Deadlifts (185/135 lbs)
100 Double-Unders
30 Box Jumps (24/20 in)
20 Burpees
10 Cleans (185/135 lbs)

“A bumper plate is a simple tool with which to get an athlete to feel the proper body position needed for a handstand, says CrossFit Level 1 Seminar Staff member Camille Leblanc-Bazinet.

With a bumper plate held overhead, the athlete will learn to squeeze his butt and bring down the rib cage with the abs, eliminating the excessive lower-back arch often seen in inverted athletes.

“I really like this drill just for that, just to understand how to … position their body and which muscles should be working,” Leblanc-Bazinet says as her husband, fellow Level 1 Seminar Staff member Dave Lipson, demonstrates at the CrossFit Inc. gym in Scotts Valley, Calif.”

HANDSTAND HOLD

lower abs workouts, five rounds for time

20 second handstand hold (scaled is against the wall)
Twenty second plank
20 second side plank (20 seconds on both sides)

“Check it out, This core workout will definitely tighten up those tummies!!! You can turn it into a partner workout and go round for round, so tag your friends and see who will do it with you.”

4 ROUND CORE WORKOUT WITH TIA CLAIR

4 Rounds

30 seconds Hollow Rock Hold
5 V-Ups
10 Hollow Rocks

Rest 1 minute between each round or partner up and keep alternating.

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