Warm Up Your Core
Your core is your center. Every movement originates here. And your core is key to optimized posture, breathing, spine alignment... Want a powerful way to start your day? Activate and strengthen your core! Kick off your week with the video Warm Up Your Core, then if you'd like to continue practicing we've put together a week of videos. Just use one a day for the rest of the week. Whether it's first thing, a noon break, or you sneak it in before bed. Remember, coffee always welcome on the mat.
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Warm Up Your Core
Your core is your center — activating here is always a good place to start and a powerful way to start your day.
Use this warm up to align your spine, activate and strengthen your core muscles, and integrate your extremities — arms and legs — to put into context how your core supports your whole...
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How to Activate Your Core
Your core is your powerhouse — it powers all of your movement. Use this routine pre-workout or on cross-training days to make sure these key muscles are awake and doing their job to optimize your power and prevent injuries.
- Focus: strength, performance
- Key muscles: core, back
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Stabilize Your Center
When it comes to Balance, your core is always a good place to start.
Use this practice to understand how your spine is designed to move, and how to activate and strengthen your core muscles to support that engineering and ease imbalance.
Take your core stabilization practice further:
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Functional Core
Functional (practical) core strength means core muscles that are strong enough to safely and effectively power sport and life movement. Use this routine to build a foundation of deep core strength that will help you gain and sustain power when you walk, run, cycle, and more.
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Core Strength with Alysia Montaño
Your core is your powerhouse — it's the engine for your extremities. Join Olympian Alysia Montaño at one of her local training spots for a quick routine to activate and strengthen your core muscles for running and beyond.
- Focus: core strength
- Key muscles: core, hips, glutes
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Core Training
Use this routine to activate and strengthen your core muscles to keep your spine long and stable, helping to mitigate back pain and injuries, and optimize your posture for powerful, functional movement. Added bonus: you'll move outside your usual range of motion for big benefits.
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Lily Partridge's Back Reset
Join professional British marathoner Lily Partridge for her Back Reset — a routine designed with and for Lily to restore a balance of mobility and stability to your spine, and ease low back stiffness and SI joint discomfort — in less than 15 minutes.
- Focus: recovery
- Key muscles: back, hips
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