Who needs core stability?
Because good balance and overall muscular strength are involved in most sports, core stability is helpful for all athletes. However, there are some sports where good core stability is especially important. These include sports where you need very good balance, contact or collision sports, such as: • downhill-mountain biking and snowboarding. • hockey, football or rugby also benefit from core strength. Core stability is also needed in everyday life: helping to keep you fit and to prevent injury when you are lugging those heavy shopping bags or doing the ironing. Core stability training Rises in back pain incidence have been linked to the sedentary lifestyle that many of us lead and as chiropractors we always try to motivate our patients to exercise. Core-stability training begins with learning to co-contract the transverse abdominus (TA) and multifidus (MF) muscles effectively as this has been identified as key to the lumbar-support mechanism. Abdominal hollowing We recommend all our ch
