A Short Essay On Core Fitness

If you've listened to the buzz around the fitness world lately or perused the latest workout books, you've probably heard the experts referencing core fitness in some shape or form. When you normally hear the words "strength training", you would often think of isolating your arm and leg muscles and working them out. In fact, if you look at many of the weight machines that have become popular in modern gyms, you'll notice that they require you to sit or recline while you use them.

These forms of gym equipment are all fine and dandy when it comes to building the muscles they are supposed to build up, but honestly, are we to use these muscles in such an unusual and unnatural way? We lift a box from the floor to a shelf, swing a golf club, push our children on the swing set, or climb a rock wall. And if you consider everything that has been said thus far about everyday activities, you may want to consider that most of these things are coordinated through the "core" of our body, or the mid-section, as all our other muscles work in symmetry with each other.

These may be very clear uses of the muscles in our core system, but the muscles in our mid-section are responsible for a lot of other functions that are not quite evident, such as our ability to sit up and stand up straight, remain stable and keep our balance.

While a weak and feeble core would logically result in poor posture and balance, the manifestations of such do not really show themselves in a congruous and logical manner. For instance, poor posture due to a weakened core can cause hip pointers that might indirectly result in a knee injury. In fact, quite a few of the chronic muscle and joint pain issues that Americans are suffering with today stem from a weakened core.

It is no wonder, then, that exercise science has taken a dramatic shift in recent years to include the core in strength training regimes. Now, rather than using a machine to first exercise your legs and then your arms, trainers are suggesting that their clients use free weights or bands to combine exercises such as a squat to overhead press. By melding these two exercises together, this forces people to exert centrifugal force through their core, which would ensure that good posture is maintained throughout the course of the routine. So in a way, the exercises right now that utilize this modern school of thought are a reasonable simulation of the movements we use in our everyday activities, while also helping us build our posture, stability and balance.

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