Spider planks target your entire core in tandem with your arms and glutes.

Here’s why one trainer adds the move into every workout.

Your abdominals are only part of your core, which actually contains around fourteen (!!)

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muscles that are essential for posture, flexibility, and balance.

One of our favorite trainers,Charlee Atkins, loves planks for all of the reasons listed above.

In fact, Atkinsincorporates spider planksinto virtually every workout.

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Heres how to try.

How to do the spider plank

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This should all be on the same side of your body; dont let your body rotate!

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Bring your leg back into plank position.

Repeat steps two to three with the opposite leg.

Continue to alternate legs.

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Youll see Atkins demonstrate the move in the third circuit.

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