For individuals that exercise frequently, it can be important to find slight variations that stress the body in different ways and can lead to different gains. A perfect example of this would be with the front plank. Everyone knows the front plank where you’re up, core tight, back tight. A simple variation of this is what’s called a pelvic tilt plank, where we’re just rotating the pelvis forward and then backwards, forward and backwards. A second variation of this is called an up down plank where we’re coming up to our hands back down to the forearms. And then a third variation of this could be just lifting one limb off the ground at a time. We can lift an arm, we can do a leg and we can do both sides of the body.