Squats and Planks Aren’t Enough to Build a Solid Core
If you can hold the board for ages and crack walnuts with endless squats , you have good core strength. But a strong core is more than just a breakthrough in your abs. Your core needs stability to protect you from injury. In other words, you need body strength and body stability.
Correct core stabilization helps you maintain a good spine position and avoid potential injury when doing deadlifts , squats , throwing someone into a scrum, or performing other types of athletic maneuvers. Try this simple exercise (called bird-dog) to test your core stability. No cheating!
So the two main questions are: can you keep your spine straight (neutral) by changing arms and legs? Can you also prevent pelvic swaying throughout the exercise? There are some more tests and conditions you can try in the article below. It also includes exercises that can improve the stability of your core, such as canine dogs (exercise above), dead insects, andkneeling resistance kicks .
Unlike exercises such as the plank, squat, and abdominal rollout, which improve core strength and are difficult, core stabilization exercises seem “easy,” but the key is to learn how to control those small stabilizer muscles in your abs.
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