Abs training or core training?
Core training has become the secret weapon for many trainers the last few years!
All the fitness industry jumped on this trend, making some kind of “revolution”!
I remember when I was a kid, nobody was talking about core training.
Why?
Very simple: most of the exercises for strength and conditioning were compound exercises; it means the exercises were real movements and not isolated movements. The muscles worked all together and the core of the body was always fully engaged to maintain control and stability.
Core training is not a revolution, it has been always part of the old school training.
But it has been forgotten for a while; and today many people continue to forget some essentials: they train the abs, so they think they train the core!
Well, they train only one part of the core: the core muscles are the abs, the low back muscles, all the deep muscles of the pelvis and the spine.
You cannot isolate these muscles, they are trained with full movements.
If you train your abs, do not forget some low back exercises: I highly recommend this one, the reverse hyper with a stability ball (but you can do it on a solid table).; you work all the muscles of the posterior chain, this is a critical complement to abdominal training.
If you like old school training, visit the new website of John Wood: Old Time Strongman. I met John last year in Tampa at a Matt Furey seminar, and I tell you, you may learn a lot about these lost techniques!
Here some others excellent resources:
Bullet-Proof Abs
Healthy Back Workouts
I remember when I was a kid, nobody was talking about core training.
Why?
Very simple: most of the exercises for strength and conditioning were compound exercises; it means the exercises were real movements and not isolated movements. The muscles worked all together and the core of the body was always fully engaged to maintain control and stability.
Core training is not a revolution, it has been always part of the old school training.
But it has been forgotten for a while; and today many people continue to forget some essentials: they train the abs, so they think they train the core!
Well, they train only one part of the core: the core muscles are the abs, the low back muscles, all the deep muscles of the pelvis and the spine.
You cannot isolate these muscles, they are trained with full movements.
If you train your abs, do not forget some low back exercises: I highly recommend this one, the reverse hyper with a stability ball (but you can do it on a solid table).; you work all the muscles of the posterior chain, this is a critical complement to abdominal training.
If you like old school training, visit the new website of John Wood: Old Time Strongman. I met John last year in Tampa at a Matt Furey seminar, and I tell you, you may learn a lot about these lost techniques!
Here some others excellent resources:
Bullet-Proof Abs
Healthy Back Workouts
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