Do Planks Make Your Waist Bigger?

It does not matter whether you do a combination of sit-ups, crunches, planks, and other core workouts on a daily basis. If you eat more calories than you burn then your waist will grow despite your intense ab workout routine.

Do planks thicken the waist?

The problem with this exercise is that it directly targets the oblique muscles with large amounts of resistance. ... But targeting these muscles directly with added resistance makes them bigger. Because the obliques are positioned mainly along the sides of your torso, the effect is to actually thicken your waist.

Do planks give you a smaller waist?

Did you know doing a plank is a full body exercise? It's one of the key moves to help shrink your waist, tone your arms and improve your entire core! Unlike a traditional sit-up that focuses on just the abdomen the plank works the whole core including your abs and lower back.