Luke Buttle

CORE TRAINING 💥

What is core training to you? For most, it’s an endless chase for those perfectly sculpted abdominals running down the front of our torso.

But our core is much more than our re**us abdominals. Our muscles often work in pairs. Over training the re**us abdominals and neglecting its antagonist - the erector spinae - could cause an imbalance, leading to chronic back pain and multiple injuries.

What we should be prioritising is stability, rotation and anti-rotation.

We should be aware of what our bodies are doing during a movement, i.e a rib flair, a pelvic tilt. We should prioritise awareness of how we engage our core to benefit a whole host of movements.

Developing a stronger core by training all of its functions and by adding variety (alongside mobility) can help reduce your chronic back pain and reduce the chances of injury during training - which is obviously a massive plus!