Best exercise for core?

best exercise for core?

Front squat, swimming, drilling martial arts

You really don't need to get a sore tummy with BB memercises

I have a really developed and strong core and 8 abs after my last cut.

I wake up and do 300-400 crunches every morning depending on how I feel. Then I do my typical power lifting shit that day, and I top it off on the rowing machine, but don't strap my feet in. I don't know what you're trying to achieve, either visible abs, or just a stronger core in general, but what I listed above covers everything basically.

crunches and sit ups are good but keep in mind that in the long run they can mess up your back
planks and front squats along with a good amount of back squats and deadlifts will build a strong core though

Are V-ups and leg raises bad for back?

dealifts

isolation: plank, side plank, dragon flag progression, dragon flag
compound: squat&deadlift

>300-400 crunches
awful fitness advice for OP's back.
way less, it depends on how much you're going to flex the lumbar region. dragon flags are the way to go.

>back issues for crunches

Yeah if you don't do them right. I've been doing them for years with no issues whatsoever. I bet you think you get snapped up doing dls with good form too.

Swimming

Can confirm. swam through college and high school, and had a 6 pack despite gorging myself on food every chance I got.

>if you don't do them right.
Cool story.
>I bet you think you get snapped up doing dls with good form too.
No, I don't think so and there's nothing in my post that would allow you to think so.

>swam through college
Competitively? Damn, that is God-tier endurance. Also literally the way to ottermode

Well you're just such a fucking retard, which is what caused me to think so.

>swam through college and high school, and had a 6 pack despite gorging myself on food every chance I got.
That's because you were in high school/college.

>Competitively? Damn, that is God-tier endurance. Also literally the way to ottermode

I was ottermode for a while.

>That's because you were in high school/college.

Nah. Swimming makes your metabolism work at an insane rate when you swim 10k yards a day. Olympic level swimmers regularly eat 8-12k calories a day during prep while doing doubles. Even older swimmers eat like this and maintain insane abs.

>Nah.
Yes.
>metabolism
is only temporarily boosted by cardio activities.

>Olympic level swimmers
are Olympic swimmers and it's their job.

>Yes
Nah.
>only temporarily
When you swim twice a day, every day of the week for years, it isn't temporary unless you outright stop.

Why do you think even olympic swimmers in their 30s have insane ottermode bodies? Their diet literally consists of eating as much as you possibly can.

What does that have to do with anything? Also not all olympic level swimmers compete.

Shadowboxing has been an effective core workout for me

>10k yards
>30k feet
>close to 6 miles
>SWIMMING
fukken brutal

>Nah.
Yes.
>When you swim twice a day, every day of the week for years, it isn't temporary unless you outright stop.
No shit, Sherlock.
>olympic swimmers
are doing their job
>What does that have to do with anything?
probably the fact that metabolism is only temporarily boosted by cardio activities. Metabolism is long-term boosted by strength and resistance training. Without the need to squat twice every day of the week for years.

is the rowing machine good for core workouts?

>such a fucking retard
Ah, name-calling. The hallmark of a meat-head with no arguments whatsoever. I didn't expect anything different, really.
not really.