Core Fitness Is A Must In Your Life!

You have probably heard of the words “core fitness” bandied around by fitness fanatics, and indeed it is becoming as much of a buzzword in the fitness world as “recession” has been a buzzword for years in the world of commerce. Traditionally, strength training has been dominated by exercises focused on isolating the muscles of the arms and legs. You will even notice that a lot of the newfangled exercise machines in fitness centers around the world would require that the user be seated or reclining in order to get best results.

While these machines will effectively help you build the muscles that they target, the problem is that, in real life, we don’t use our muscles that way. We lift a box from the floor to a shelf, swing a golf club, push our children on the swing set, or climb a rock wall. In fact, the vast majority of the things we do require all of the muscles in our bodies to function together and be coordinated through our mid-sections, or our “core.”

These may be very clear uses of the muscles in our core system, but the muscles in our mid-section are responsible for a lot of other functions that are not quite evident, such as our ability to sit up and stand up straight, remain stable and keep our balance.

While a weak and feeble core would logically result in poor posture and balance, the manifestations of such do not really show themselves in a congruous and logical manner. For example, poor posture, due to a weakened core, might allow our hips to slip out of alignment resulting in knee pain. In fact, quite a few of the chronic muscle and joint pain issues that Americans are suffering with today stem from a weakened core.

So now you shouldn’t wonder why most strength training regimens have undergone a paradigm shift, once focusing on the arms and legs but now focusing on the core. Now, rather than using a machine to first exercise your legs and then your arms, trainers are suggesting that their clients use free weights or bands to combine exercises such as a squat to overhead press. By linking the two, people are forced to transition the exercise movement through their core, and the core muscles in turn help to maintain good posture throughout the exercise. So in a way, the exercises right now that utilize this modern school of thought are a reasonable simulation of the movements we use in our everyday activities, while also helping us build our posture, stability and balance.

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