30/11/2025
🧩 Exercise of the Week: Heel Taps (Core Exercise) 💪
Why add heel taps to your routine?
Heel taps are a simple but effective core-strengthening exercise that targets your obliques, lower abdominals, and deep stabilising muscles. They help improve trunk control, enhance balance, and support healthy movement patterns — all without putting strain on the lower back.
They’re perfect for beginners, a warm-up, or as part of a targeted core circuit.
Top Benefits:
🔥 Strengthens obliques and lower abs
🧠 Improves coordination and core control
🩻 Supports better posture and spinal stability
⚡ Helps reduce lower-back discomfort by improving abdominal engagement
🏋️♀️ Great for toning and defining the waist area
🤸♀️ Low-impact and easy to modify for all fitness levels
Why we should include them:
Heel taps help build a balanced, functional core, which is essential for: Safe lifting, Sports performance, Everyday movement & Injury prevention. A strong core = a strong foundation.