That core umbrella includes your internal and external obliques, the muscles that wrap around either side of your abdominal area. These muscles are responsible for bending your torso forward and ...

I’m going to focus on one exercise that you can do for every abdominal muscle. It’s not to achieve a flat stomach, but to ...

Our core is key for everyday movement, but when most of us train it we tend to just do exercises that isolate our ‘superficial’ ab muscles, like the rectus abdominis and external obliques.

It's easy to focus your ab workouts on the muscles you can spot in the mirror. But just as important for core strength and overall function are the muscles we can't see in our own reflection.

Background: Posterior abdominal wall deficiency (PAWD) is a tear in the external oblique aponeurosis or the conjoint tendon causing a posterior wall defect at the medial end of the inguinal canal. It ...

cm in transverse abdominis muscle, 1.1 (±2.2) cm in internal oblique muscle, 0.4 (±1.6) cm in external oblique muscle and 0.2 (±1.8) cm in rectus abdominis muscle. However, in seven women, the ...