The 12 Best Oblique Exercises For a Stronger Core

The dead bug is a classic core-strengthening exercise, and it recruits your obliques as well as your deep core muscles.

• Lie face-up on the floor with your legs in tabletop position, shins parallel to the floor and knees bent at a 90-degree angle. Press your palms into your thighs just below your knees.
• Press your lower back into the floor. Keeping your ribs and pelvis still, lengthen your right arm and leg and lower them until they are just above the floor.
• Return to the starting position and repeat on the left side. That's one rep.