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Originally Posted by Lost Dog
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.
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No argument from me at all. We have to prepare our bodies for unexpected things that come our way....that's one of the reasons I work out. It's the exercises that we use to do this that I probably am not in total agreement on.
A lot of my rationale is based on personal experience where abdominal strain injuries start appearing once I introduced new core exercises. I no longer introduce these into my programs, instead allowing my normal lifts to control required muscle development. I feel that conventional lifts *do* train your core muscles for activities that you describe (I probably should have included this in my original post).
But the foundation core exercises should be the mundane activities that we sometimes pass off as unimportant.....nature's way of keeping us healthy.