7 Best Standing Core Exercises for Strength and Balance

Hello Mighty Family! A strong core is important for posture, stability, and back pain. It also helps reduce your risk of falling and makes moving through daily tasks easier! These at home, standing exercises strengthen the entire core and incorporate additional balance movements to help you feel your best! There are no shoes required, but you can add in a light set of weights for an extra challenge!

In this Weekly Balance class, Coach Lindsay leads us through:
0:36 Class prep
1:20 Preview
1:43 Marching warm up
2:44 Abdominal twists
4:14 Right side crunches
5:26 Left side crunches
6:32 Bicycle crunches
7:45 Right side oblique stretch
9:23 Left side oblique stretch
10:26 Right chop exercise
12:11 Left chop exercise
13:22 Toe touches
14:41 Lower back stretch
16:05 Hip circles

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[juliehoot]

I am a senior and adding more single leg and balance exercises! Liked it.

[jessejoy]

This was such a helpful exercise!! The pacing of the video helped my grandmother so much!! Can’t wait to share more with her!

[ST-mkcb]

Hi just came across your video. It looks like some exercises that I can try. I have back problems and need to strengthen my core without being on the floor. They look easy but I tried a couple and they are hard but not overwhelming. Thank you. 😁😁👍👍

[shiangjeoushyu]

I am so glad to find your video! Thank you for the demostration.

[permissionmission]

It’s rainy so I wanted to do something different inside. This was great and simple to follow. Thank you!

[jadehollyfield]

Thank you SO much for this video! I just found this channel and am now subscribed. I've been battling a bad case of sciatica. Never had it before. I've been to my chiropractor and an acupuncturist. Goingnon 3 weeks with this. I've got some improvements but still struggling.

Core strength has never been something I've focused on until this injury. I was able to do this video without pain and felt great afterwards. I shall continue. Thank you so much!!

[ruthfrye]

These are what I need! At almost seventy, I can handle.

[myaccount]

Wow what a lovely & encouraging manner you have!

[susanbeal]

Excellent balance exercises! Thank you’

[kimgreerpuchek]

This is awesome for strengthening and improving my balance after hip replacement surgery. Good demonstrations and it’s something I isn’t too challenging, yet still works. Thank you!

[loripavlick]

Enjoy these effective standing core exercises as opposed to being on the mat!

[karenj]

I just need to say that I love this so much. Tried it tonight and feel so much better already! This will be a daily thing from now on!

[cawiltu]

Exhausted after only a few knee to elbow. Will try again later😢

[JanellieJellie]

was starting to do this until the crunches came up. my hips started popping.

[rosaoddin]

I’m not certain these exercises are too practical for seniors. I have pretty good balance but these seem for the most part not geared for seniors.

[lmacnotw]

How do you use (squeeze) your core to actually benefit from core workouts? I’ve never really understood it

[MsCellobass]

Im 60 yrs old and this should help as one ages.

[lolitaverzosa]

I’m 72 y.o…will this work for me…
Thank you

[bornagainchristian]

i m 71 years old suffering from scoliosis I just cannot follow the crunches exercises as if I dont have energy to do them

[Dex]

Good content, but I think it’s unnecessary to do the exercises on both sides in the video. Just demonstrate the exercise on one side. We can all figure out that the exercises are symmetrical.