Understanding The Proper Role of Your Abdominal Muscles
If the Abdominals Are Not The True Core, Then What Are They Doing On My Body? That is a great question--one that I promised I would answer approximately one week ago. So here it is: The abdominal muscles, particularly the oblique muscles, are not the true core, but truly the means of muscular communication between what the upper and lower extremities are doing. If you look in anatomy textbooks, you’ll see the function of the following muscles as such: (see picture below as w
When you think of your core, what do you think of?
When most people are asked about their core, or whether or not they have a core, they immediately think of their abdominal muscles. In particular, they think of their rectus abdominis, the muscle that forms the so-called “6 pack” or “washboard.” Those who go to the gym a lot, or who are more educated about fitness often think of their core as the combination of their rectus abdominis, as well as their obliques and transversus abdominis muscles. They will go to the gym and
