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The core is comprised of your abs, glutes, hip muscles and lower back. Usually, people find doing ab crunches, Russian twists, leg raises synonymous with ‘strengthening the core’ this is true for a minority of people who are ultra-beginners, elderly, or physique competitors who need to target specific muscles to assemble muscular symmetry, but contrary the popular belief, a great set of abs does not equate to a strong core.
Let me make one thing clear: there’s nothing wrong with the exercises, they are great exercises for people with specific goals, but they force your core to create tension rather than resist tension, which is why people with athletic goals are more suited to training their core in a way I am going to mention.
If we want to put ourselves in positions to resist tension, our core will work as a unit to do that, and that is the most effective way to train your core, here’s why:
The core muscles cooperate with each other to provide the spine and pelvis with stability, particularly when performing functional movements.
This core stability has been summarized as the strength and stability of the spine rather than the look of your abdominals.
Methods to engage your core effectively are bear-crawl positioning, offset loading, unstable surfaces, chains, variable resistance, zercher exercises and palloff-press variations. Below are seven videos of awesome band-resisted paloff-press variations using a rope attachment. Read the description of the youtube videos for an in-depth explanation of each exercise.
Reference
Tan, S., Cao, L., Schoenfisch, W. and Wang, J., 2013. Investigation of core muscle function through electromyography activities in healthy young men. Journal of Exercise Physiology Online, 16(1), p.45.
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