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Originally Posted by AskTheTrainer
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I don't understand your rationale for a fail. It's telling you what to do and not to do from the 30,000 foot level, but it's not a program.
...and it seems to be
mostly about muscle balance. Are you saying that posture is the key to muscle balance? Posture is important to core strength?
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Originally Posted by wil58
I love the article.
Personally, I think we should let human movement calibrate the core muscles. Walking, jogging, and cleaning up around the house are my favourite core exercises.
This might not work for high-performance athletes who (probably) need a trainer to fine-tune their core muscles (almost muscle by muscle) for the demands that they place on their bodies. I think the result of programs like this is better performance at the micro level but much greater susceptibility to injuries through core muscle balance issues (which I think the article correctly focuses on).
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Sorry. It's very hard to follow what you are saying in the last paragraph.
Core training should be set to the level of the athlete/trainee. If the person has adequate core strength and walks, jogs, and does housework, then that could be fine. What happens when they decide to change the flat tire on the car and hoist the tire from the trunk? That (to them) is an extreme movement that they aren't prepared for.
In the days of yore, people walked, jogged, and did housework, but also regularly mucked stalls, hunted, gathered, lifted heavy things around the house and yard. They generally did heavier work. In the modern day, exercise is basically a "treatment" to combat the lack of the activity that we used to have. Unfortunately, we need to be a little more prepared, because sometimes life throws things our way.