Most people who train the core train the visible core: crunches for the rectus abdominis, planks for surface endurance, side bends for the obliques. These exercises develop the muscles that are visible and the movements that feel like core work. They largely bypass the transversus abdominis, the deepest abdominal muscle, which is invisible, produces no…

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