You hear it all the time... Keep your core tight, make sure your core is strong, this exercise focuses on your core, that does that mean? I will try and break it down for you to understand.
In the most basic terms your body has 3 types of muscles: Prime movers, stabilizers, and involuntary muscle. Prime movers are muscles such as your biceps while your carrying boxes or your glutes and quadriceps when performing a squat exercise. Stabilizers are muscles that are usually closest to the joints and give your body the support it needs to stay upright and balanced. These muscles are ‘pre-anticipatory’, meaning, they fire before you perform an activity to make sure you don’t fall over from imbalance. These stabilizers or postural muscles are what enables humans to walk upright compared to other animals such as chimps. Involuntary muscle examples are your heart and diaphragm, those muscles can act without your thought.
The ‘core’ musculature is the most neglected muscle group in America today. The ‘lower core’ is located in the abdominal region extending into the back, diaphragm and pelvic floor muscles. The average American spends the majority of their day either sitting at a desk. The chair they sit in does not offer a challenge to your muscles so they relax, most commonly, your gluteus maximus or “rear-end” and your low back stabilizers. Over time these muscles de-condition (Lose muscle tone and strength) and eventually no longer have the ability to stabilize your spine properly and other body parts leading to pain and/or injury. INJURY PREVENTION BROOKLYN, NY is a link that will help you diagnosis and treat minor injuries such as sprain/strains. The information contained in that link combined with the core exercises outlined in this article will help ensure you decrease the chances of hurting yourself.
Think about building a house. The most crucial part of the house is the foundation, if you look at your body; it is similar to a pyramid. Stabilization occupies the base upon which you build strength and then finally power at the very top. Stabilization is what will keep you from “throwing your back out” next time you have to lift boxes, or aggravating a past injury that might not have been with proper rehabilitation.
‘Core stabilization’ should eventually become second nature while working out and throughout your active day. Once the process is learned it is a technique that uses bio-mechanical positioning to effectively combat the one factor none of us on earth can disregard... GRAVITY. Gravity is a force that is always working against you, and your posture and positioning will dictate how much of a positive or negative influence it will have on your body. If you have poor posture and tend to lean your head forward while in front of your computer, over years and years the ‘core’ muscles that stabilize your head to your neck will slowly become weaker and weaker due to repetitive stress, eventually leading to neck pain and perhaps headaches.
‘Core Stabilization’ involves exercises that directly focus on a particular muscle, balance training (proprioceptive training), and functional training. Balance training is crucial because this keeps your body from getting injured, while functional training prepares your body for movements that are similar to what you perform on a daily basis.
The ‘core’ is what every knowledgeable trainer of any type of exercise should always account for and test to ensure acceptable strength and conditioning. This comes into play even more importantly with those people who have prior injures, surgeries, health conditions, and/or lack of experience in exercise. Anyone rehabbing an injury or addressing a pain management issue should be building up their core muscles within the treatment protocol. You can learn the first steps to POSTURE CORRECTION AND EXERCISE BROOKLYN, NY by entering the insurance information in the link. This type of bio-mechanical treatment can be covered by your medical insurance. Choose the path to pain elimination not just addressing the symptoms.
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