Open Gym 9:00-10:00am

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Many people talk about training "the core" as if it is some ancillary supplement to your "meat and potatoes" training. Those of us who understand anatomy of functional movement recognize that everything is core. Moving large loads, long distances quickly requires multi- joint, proximal to distal motor recruitment patterns. Power generated from the center is translated outward to produce movement. It is called our kinetic chain, and the stronger your chain, the greater your ability to create power. I like to use this comparison to illustrate this. Picture a tennis racket. You swing the racket and force is translated through the handle, up a light and rigid graphite shaft and finally accelerates the head with a big whoosh! Now picture that same swing except the shaft of the racket is made of a wet sponge and not rigid graphite. Did you loose the whoosh? You betcha! Do you think the ball you hit was gonna go very far?...Hell no! Why?...Because all the force you created was absorbed and not translated. So what's the point? The core is not something..it is everything with regard to your training and ability to perform athletically.