Most People Over 50 Don’t Know This Core Activation Trick

Here’s a simple and effective trick to activate your core muscles, without the confusion created by a lot of more complicated explanations:

Prepare for a poking

The core includes up to 29 muscles (depending on how we count them) around the spine, pelvis, and torso. Activating these muscles improves stability and reduces injury risk during movement, but common advices about how to do so can be a bit overcomplicated and unhelpful, leading to confusion and/or incorrectly-done exercises.

Instead, he says: imagine someone poking your side—your natural reaction is to tense your tummy and glutes. This instinctive tension effectively activates your core, without you having to think about the various muscles involved or whether to push or pull your stomach this way or that.

Once you’ve got that, practice maintaining the core tension while breathing steadily in and out (don’t hold your breath!). Start by feeling the tension with your fingers. Then keep that contraction while breathing to build awareness and control.

Next, you can bring that into other positions and movements, to master it fully and make it a part of your natural way of holding yourself.

For more on all of this, plus visual demonstrations, enjoy:

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