Ever wonder why you’re not seeing results in the club? It may be your form. Thanks to fitness trainer Simone De La Rue, we’ve simple fixes for three classic moves: planks, crunches, and lunges. With side-by-side videos, she informs us how you can adjust and perfect your form. This is what she demonstrates in the clip:?
If you’re doing so right, you can engage your back, arms, shoulders, glutes, and hamstrings in a plank. But you may be having problems aligning your body properly. Instead of arching your back in an upward facing dog position and allowing your hips to sink down, engage your core and pull your hips up and into alignment.
Another fantastic way to work your core may be the crunch. With this up-and-down movement, you need to protect your head and neck while you engage your core. Keep your bent arms wide and open as the hands cradle your head.
We’ve been doing this one since elementary school, that could be why many of us jump with an awkward form. To fix it, think about your limbs and just how they’re positioned: When your arms go up, they must be shoulder-width apart. And when your legs jump out, your knees ought to be shoulder-width apart, too. Don’t bend them inward; your knees should track over your ankles. ?
