For more spinal stability / safety, you could (and should) engage your pelvic floor and transverse abdominals, which will in turn help to engage
the deep core stabilizers (the multifidi and rotatores).
With practice, this anticipatory firing of
your deep core stabilizers will happen automatically much like you have described your TA being automatically contracted when you are walking.
You've also got
deep core stabilizers, your primary hip flexors — the psoas muscles.
This is a fun combination move for your entire core — lower back muscles and
deep core stabilizers.
Not exact matches
The bottom line is, we need to train the abs to become better
stabilizers and ideally, we need a combination of both; exercises that train our abs as prime movers (crunch variations) and
deep abdominal training (draw in) for stronger stabilizing abdominal muscles for a balanced
core.
Increasing tension through max contraction of all available tissues carries
deep into the
core, getting the little
stabilizers involved.
-LSB-...] about the «root of our
core,» the
deepest three
stabilizers of our body in previous blogs.
So cut down on the crunches and instead focus your
core routine on the
deep transverse abdominis, a muscle that girdles your midsection like a corset and that is a prime postural muscle and
stabilizer.
Whether or not this is proven to be true — one thing we do know is that these two muscles work together as the
deepest contraction, the first
stabilizers, as the root of our
core.
The
core muscles are the
deep stabilizers like the pelvic floor, the psoas, the multifidus, and the transversus abdominis, among others.
Through
deep breathing and functional movements, you can encode your nervous system to enlist your
core muscles as
stabilizers, providing you with a built - in, internalized ring of support.
By adding in the instability of a suspension trainer like the TRX, you can increase the «wobble» factor, and thereby increase the activity of the
stabilizer muscles of the
deep core and hip complex.