02/06/2023
What is the core?
The core is the foundation for your movements, enabling mobility in the upper and lower body, directing power efficiently to your limbs, and stabilizing your spine, ribcage, and pelvis against the stress of those movements, or of external forces exerted upon them.
Modern lifestyles are highly sedentary, meaning certain core muscles may become inactive. If you do not exercise your core muscles regularly, you will lose the ability to engage them instinctively when performing everyday movements such as bending and lifting. When this happens, other muscles may take over from them, which can lead to muscular imbalances, and possibly, injury in the longer term (e.g. lower-back pain). Core training helps to improve strength, stability, and mobility, reducing the likelihood of such imbalances developing.
