Rolling takes away your big powerhouse mover muscles and relies on
deep stabilizer muscle strength.
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.
This is a fun combination move for your entire core — lower back
muscles and
deep core
stabilizers.
You've also got
deep core
stabilizers, your primary hip flexors — the psoas
muscles.
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.
(You can also include our multifidi
muscles in this
deep contraction but we will talk about those segmental
stabilizers on another day).
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.
But when I work
deeper, I feel that your intrinsic
muscles, the
stabilizers, such as your erector spinae, are extremely tight.»
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.
Not only are you strengthening the superficial and
deep abdominal
muscles, you're activating the
stabilizers that support your back and protect you against back injury and back pain.
(We're referring to the transversus abdominis, the
deepest abdominal
muscle and a low - back
stabilizer, and its connecting thoracolumbar fascia.)