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RE: Health Vlog #2: The Core, Explained

in #health7 years ago

Good video, I've wondered if 6 packs/strong abs were very useful other than the aesthetics. It's an odd muscle, biceps/shoulders/chest can be used to lift or push weight but the core is just "there" and I don't think we should lift weights with our stomach... If crunches and situps are inefficient, I naturally want to know more efficient ways of doing it!

I guess the wire analogy was meant to convey that if we bend our core a lot and it's not very strong then there's 'power leakage' and there's inefficient energy transfer through the body, I hadn't thought about it that way before

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Thank you!

Strong abs are definitely important. It depends how you define strong though.

Abs should be isometrically strong.