Video: Core Exercises: Side Knee Drops

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Exercise abdominal muscles with a focus on the obliques with the side knee drop core exercise. Learn to do the side knee drop core exercise with tips from a certified fitness trainer in this free exercise video.

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This next functional core exercise is called the side knee drops. This is a great exercise for your core, but we're really working those oblique?s so really think about engaging your abdominal muscles and use your breath to make this exercise more effective. So come on down to the floor and you want to really think about bringing your arms out like a T, bring your legs up into a tabletop position. So you want to make sure that your knees are directly over your hips, your feet are in line with your knees. Press the small of your back down towards the floor. As you lower your knees down to one side, inhale, then exhale as you draw your knees back to the center. Inhale, take your knees over to the other side and be sure not to touch the floor with those knees, and then exhale, really drawing that belly in when you bring your knees back to the center. To make it a little bit more challenging take your arms up towards the ceiling, draw those shoulder blades back so that you're creating a solid anchor and inhale, lower your knees down to the side and exhale as you bring your knees back to the center and then to the other side, and back to the center. You can perform those exercises for about a minute on each side, and that is your side knee drops.

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Core Exercises: Side Knee Drops

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