Core
Side Plank
Trains core. No equipment at all. We use it as an accessory rather than a main lift.
What you need
- Equipment
- Nothing — bodyweight
- Trains
- Core
- In a plan
- An accessory
This one needs almost nothing — dumbbells, a bench, or just the floor. It's part of the set we fall back to so that any gym can still get a complete plan.
How to do it
Stack the shoulders and hips, lift the bottom ribs away from the floor.
Watch the form ↗That's a search, not a fixed video — deliberately. A pinned clip can be deleted or turn out to be a bad demonstration, and you'd only find out mid-workout.
If the machine's busy
These train the same pattern, and they're what the app offers you as a swap: