CORE TEST

As you all know by now, the CORE is one of the most important area of your own body. The muscles around your mid-section (abdominals, obliques, and lower back muscles) make up the CORE. Let's face it, a stronger mid-section can ease the activities of your daily living and help you maintain a healthy spine. Even the best athletes have a rock solid CORE that can determine their performance.

I will provide you with a simple test that you can evaluate if your CORE is strong enough. You can perform this test at your local gym or even at your house.

CORE TEST:

1. PLANK HOLDS FOR 2 MINUTES
2. SIDE PLANKS (EACH SIDE)FOR 1 MINUTE AND 30 SECONDS, AND
3. HYPER EXTENSION HOLDS FOR ANOTHER 2 MINUTES


Make sure you train your Core muscles for endurance, strength, and power. How do you do that...simple just increase the weight and do less repetitions. The ONE THING THAT YOU SHOULD BE AWARE OF IS THE ROTATION MOVEMENTS. I advice you not to train rotation with a lot of weigh because it can cause injuries to your spine. You should choose exercises like the oblique blast showed in a previous post, that you do not perform any rotation patterns, but effectively train your obliques.

Another tips is not to overtrain one area of the CORE muscles more that the other, yet you can create imbalances. Choose wisely 2 or 3 exercises for each section and YES DO REST 1 OR 2 DAYS BEFORE TRAIN YOUR CORE MUSCULATURE AGAIN.

I'm out........