You don’t have do to crunches to strengthen your core

Want to strengthen your core without doing a single crunch? There are plenty of other ways to build strength.

Steve Simmons, owner of the Fitt Factory in Canton, describes your core as your foundation and explains that it can carry over into everything you do.

“If you’re picking things up, grabbing things, reaching, stooping, bending...that’s your foundation, your core right there. So I tell people your core can’t be strong enough,” Simmons said.

Watch the video above to see Simmons share multiple exercises that can strengthen your core, aside from a typical sit-up or crunch.