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REAL-News--February-20251Mar 10

March 10, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

Core Exercise, Part 2: Training the Abs to Do Their Job

In a previous blog,  Core Exercise, Part 1: Fad, Fashion or Fundamental?, I proposed that core exercise is not just about training the abs since the core is a more integrated, comprehensive functional unit that simply includes the abs as one element. In Part 2, I want to stress how the abs actually function – notRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: core, core activation, core endurance, core exercise, core power, exercise intensity, functional fitness, musculoskeletal improvements, resistance training

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February 24, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

Core Exercise, Part 1: Fad, Fashion or Fundamental?

What’s all the fuss about “core”? Too many articles in the lay literature address core as if somehow it’s a brand new thing in fitness. Yet, those articles fail to appreciate the full measure of what core exercise is all about. In fact, they tend to further the image of core by emphasizing the abdominals,Read More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: abdominals, abs, core, core exercise, field of health or exercise science

REAL-News--July-20241Nov 17

November 17, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Walking Off the Plank or Getting to the Core of the Matter

The ubiquity of planks in gyms and exercise videos has denigrated it to the level of a ‘fad’. Once the newcomer to fitness – about 15 years ago – it is now so common as both an exercise of choice for almost all kinds of athletes and people and as a standard of achievement forRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: core exercise, lateral plank, low back pain, planks, spinal stabilizing, stability ball crunch, stability ball plank

Jul 19, 2010

July 19, 2010 By Irv Rubenstein

Core Exercise

So, I’ve been traveling a lot lately, some pleasure – like to panama city beach with my girlfriend during the july fourth weekend, some paternal -like to Los Angeles and Seattle with my daughter checking out colleges, some work – like to Kansas city to teach other trainers for exercise etc, and most recently, someRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: core exercise, jump, run, swim, TRX

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