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REAL News - April 20191Mar 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

Stability Balls at WorkSep 21

September 21, 2010 By Irv Rubenstein

Stability Balls at Work

Much has been done by exercise pros over the past 20 yrs to elevate the formerly known “Swiss ball” (SB) to near-Olympian levels of wonder results. What was originally a ball used in neurological therapy for newborns with developmental issues. Once the ball hit America, like many other things that had intrinsic value and utilityRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: core, Exercise, posture, Stability ball

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April 12, 2010 By Irv Rubenstein

Vertical Core Exercise

Now why didn’t I think of this name? Damn it – I’ve been promoting it since 1992 when I first got hold of a newfangled exercise toy, the elastic band with handles.  I call it the torso rotation when you hold one end in your clasped hands directly in front of the sternum and rotateRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: ACSM, core, dynamic, fitness

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