Transversus Abdominis and Lower Back Pain: Smoking Gun?
The transversus abdominus (TrA) has been a muscle linked to lower back pain (LBP) for a great many years. Advocates feel that LBP may cause, or may result from, an inability to...
core training
The Core and Athletic Performance: Murky Waters
Our understanding of the role of core training is in transition currently. It’s gone from being the holy grail of training (i.e. essential to performance and injury prevention) to having its significance...
Shake Up Your Warm-Up, Part 5: Putting Everything Together
In the first four parts of this series we covered dynamic flexibility exercises, core training, prehab training, and jumps and throws as warm-up (see http://wp.me/p1XfMm-2O , http://wp.me/p1XfMm-2S , http://wp.me/p1XfMm-2V and http://wp.me/p1XfMm-2Z )....
Shake Up Your Warm-Up, Part 2: Core Training
The first part of this series covered using dynamic flexibility exercises as part of the warm-up (see http://wp.me/p1XfMm-2O ). This part will cover core training. Core training is a type of exercise...