How to Use side plank in a Sentence

side plank

noun

• Also, the side plank places more emphasis on your glutes and hip abductors, as your bottom leg pushes up against gravity.
  — Saralyn Ward, Health, 15 May 2026
• Simple movements like squats, deadlifts, side planks, and dead hangs can improve strength, balance, posture, and overall function.
  — Saralyn Ward, Health, 15 May 2026
• In your first trimester, exercises like bear crawls, side planks and bird dogs can reduce aches and pains later in pregnancy, like pelvic girdle pain, sometimes called lightning crotch.
  — Andee Tagle, NPR, 15 Aug. 2026
• The plank and side plank positions are static body-balancing and muscle-strengthening exercises.
  — Mallory Creveling, Health, 9 July 2026
• Incorporating other core-strengthening exercises, like side planks, bird dogs, dead bugs, and suitcase carries, can help reinforce the same muscles and, ultimately, prolong your plank holds.
  — Christa Sgobba, Health, 3 Apr. 2026