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The best CORE exercise you’re not doing…

28 Mar 2025

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This short instructional clip promotes weighted carries as an effective core exercise, listing several variations (single-weight suitcase, offset, racked, farmer's carry, shoulder, overhead, split-positioning) and programming options (marches, circuits). Key coaching cues: go heavy, maintain alignment while walking/marching, and keep the core engaged; useful for limited space and circuit inclusion.

The best core exercise you might not be doing the carry. So many ways to do this. 1. The single weight suitcase carry an offset racked carry two weights for a farmer's carry or take them at your shoulders or even overhead. This one is super challenging. You can even split positioning one up, one down, even at different weights. These carries can also be done as marches. This is great if you are tight on space or putting them in the middle of a circuit. You often see these in my workouts. The key is to go heavy, walk or march in alignment and engage your core throughout. More below.

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