What kind of workouts help strengthen my core for running Crosscountry?

Question

May you explain the form and how many and should i do these excersices every day? Thank YOU!

Oops.. I know i spelled strengthen wrong. Did'nt I?

Answer 1

the elliptical or pilates works great!

Answer 2

I ran cross country until I "grew up/out" too much but our coach had us do a lot of crunches, streching, and running each night, slowly upping mileage.  

Answer 3

the best would be various ab workouts such as:

crunches, bicycles, leg lifts, scissors etc.

For best results make it a circuit:

do 20  (or as many or as little as you want) crunches then, 20 bicycles, 20 sit-ups rest for 30 seconds to a minute then do it agian.  Do about 3 sets.  Abs is a muscle group that can be done every day, do it after you run though.

Answer 4

what i can suggest is jog every night. every night you jog youll be able to go for longer and longer. it'll get u used to running for long periods of time.

Answer 5

try to use lower body wait lifting and don't build to much uper body strenghth because muscle is hevier than fat

Answer 6

Core and pillars! Sittups, leg lifts, supermans,  any exorcise that builds abbs( you use thoes alot running).