Strengthen Your Core

Old-school obliques exercises involved putting a broomstick behind your shoulders and twisting umpteen times to the right and left or holding hand weights and bending side to side.  Today, there are other exercises that recruit and isolate obliques muscle fibers better, such as side and bicycle crunches. Remember too that in many exercises, the abdominal get an extra hit because they're working to stabilize the torso while doing the moves that target other muscles. Most common among these are exercises where your body is held in a plank position, such as push-ups. Try some!