Core Training

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Several guests whom I have worked with over the past year are going to personal trainers at home specifically for what they call "Core Training". While that is good in many ways the disturbing thing is that they all come here with no idea of how to actually engage their core muscles to assist them in every day movements or even in basic exercises.

One guest in particular just left and he is a golfer with very bad pain is his right shoulder blade, at the top. Just looking at him it was clear that he was not using his lower trapezius, serratus anterior, or teres and was overusing his upper traps for every shoulder and arm exercise (including golf!).

After one pilates private, one pilates class, one fitness private, and a couple of good massages he was just fine! And we did upper body work. It was they way he was moving that was the issue. He needed to know how to stay in a neutral pelvis, how to find his shoulder muscles, and how to stabilize his torso using his core musculature.

But it made me wonder what he has been paying a trainer for...

Tags: Fitness, Health, Personal Training, Core Training