Time: until muscles fatigue (around 12 minutes)
Think: weight training, planks, push-ups, and lots of body weight ideas below
For the sort of 360-degree stability that Swift needs to put on an Eras Tour show, she needs a super strong core to not only support her lungs and diaphragm for singing, she’s got to have that support to keep her body aligned so that she doesn’t fall off those high-heeled thigh boots or multi-story stage risers.
Yohay asked Danny Saltos, a NASM-certified personal trainer and health coach, for help in outlining the best core workouts everyone can do at home with no special equipment. Her list of best core workouts includes 15 classic moves which aren’t hard to understand (for example planks, toe touches, heel taps) but are taxing to perform in multiples. Yohay recommends choosing five core exercises of one to two minutes each, then repeating the set once or twice. Her personal picks (demonstrated here) include:
Hold/perform for 60 seconds, repeat circuit once:
- Plank
- Side plank with rotation
- Deadbug
- Bicycle crunch
- Leg lifts