Core · Bodyweight
Bodyweight Core Exercises
72 core exercises you can do with no equipment at all — 31 beginner, 25 intermediate and 16 advanced. Every exercise has an animated demonstration and step-by-step instructions, and all of them are ready to log in the SetGrip app.
Beginner (31)
45-Degree Bench Side Bend
Alternating Heel Touch
Arms Crossed Sit-Up
Bench Incline Side Plank
Bent Knee Hip Raise
Bicycle Crunch
Bodyweight Squat
Butterfly Reverse Crunch
Cocoon Crunch
Cross Body Crunch
Cross Body Knee Crunch
Crunch
Dead Bug
Feet on Bench Oblique Crunch
Flat Bench Knee Tuck
Flat Bench Leg Hip Raise
Forearm Plank Pike
Frog Crunch
Knee Touch Crunch
Kneeling Forearm Plank Shoulder Tap
McGill Curl Up
Negative Crunch
Prisoner Sit-Up (Half Range)
Reverse Crunch
Seated Leg Raise
Side Lying Oblique Crunch
Sit-Up
Sit-Up (Quarter Range)
Sit-Up (Three Quarter Range)
Straight Leg Sit-Up
Tuck Crunch
Intermediate (25)
Alternating Hanging Knee Raise
Arm Slings Hanging Knee Raise
Arms Overhead Crunch
Arms Overhead Sit-Up
Bent Knee V-Up
Bird Dog Plank
Captain's Chair Leg Raise
Captain's Chair Twisting Leg Raise
Crab Toe Touch
Cross Body Mountain Climber
Decline Crunch
Decline Sit-Up
Flat Bench Leg Raise
Forward Lunge with Twist
Hip Lift Hanging Knee Raise
Incline Bench Leg Hip Raise
Incline Twisting Sit-Up
Plank Rotation
Plank Shoulder Tap
Push-Up to Side Plank
Reverse Crunch with Leg Extension
Russian Twist
Side Plank
Straight Arms V-Up
V-Up
Advanced (16)
Arm Slings Hanging Leg Raise
Captain's Chair Knee Raise
Captain's Chair Oblique Knee Raise
Floor L-Sit
Floor V-Sit
Hanging Knee Raise
Hanging Leg Raise
Hanging Oblique Knee Raise
Hanging Pike
Hip Lift Hanging Leg Raise
Janda Sit-Up
Reverse Plank Leg Raise
Rollover to V-Sit
Suspension Fallout
Suspension Knee Tuck
Twisting Hip Lift Hanging Leg Raise
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Exercise data and animations are licensed ExerciseDB content used in SetGrip. This page is for general information and is not medical or coaching advice.