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The Power of the Plank

March 12, 2012 Exercise
Lets discuss a great exercise for strengthening your body’s core, The Plank. Since there is no equipment needed to perform it, you can do the plank anywhere you’d like. While the exercise is sim ..
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Improve Muscle Balance and Stability for Increased Performance – Part 3

April 3, 2011 Exercise
Faulty Alignment of the Pelvis Welcome back for this third installment of the article series. If you have read up on the previous topics and applied what you have learned, you should notice a few res ..
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Functional Core Training – Part 3

December 12, 2010 Exercise
Core Assessment This is an area that brings up differing opinions within the fitness and physical therapy worlds, as some trainers such as Clark believe that the use of standing postural assessments ..
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Functional Core Training – Part 2

December 5, 2010 Exercise
The Concepts of Core Stabilization The core can be defined as the lumbo-pelvic-hip complex: there are 29 muscles that have attachments within this area. The importance of the core is to maintain the ..
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Functional Core Training – Part 1

November 28, 2010 Exercise
The aims of the following 3 part series on functional core training is to allow for the fitness professional to design safe and effective integrated core training programmes that will allow for the cl ..
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