I am so passionate about the core, especially the bottom, the pelvic floor. That is the missing piece that most people don’t know about. That is why I am here. 😆
When your core fires appropriately, it frees up your voluntary (mobility) muscles, it keeps your body oriented in space, it means you’re an awesome surfer, or skate boarder doing flips in the air. You have to be oriented in space for your legs to ‘ride the wave’.
Like a jockey, their body appears to be floating above the horse. Their legs only moving underneath along with the horse . Their pelvic floor has to be toned and able to move their legs underneath along with the horse. Their eyes are fixated, and when you stay fixated your core fires. The way your fire the core is visualization, fixation and intention. The core is supposed to fire in one piece, you can’t fracture it off. It’s about timing.
Most people fire the outside to the inside, that’s what happens when we train the core. We train the core like the whole torso, I am not talking about that. I am talking about the canister core, the one we have to learn before we can walk. The one we use so we can be ‘continent’ before we can run. You have to have control over your voluntary muscles. They each do their own job and it takes a long time.
We all learned it, we all did it, because we had to get upright at some point, and then delegate the core to the voluntary muscles, which means they are not available to do the voluntary stuff fully. The first thing your body does when it gets an injury is that it ‘pops’ the balloon in the canister limiting your activity.
So most people train to come back in a very sports specific way, they are not actually training in the right order. They are training their compensation because you can’t train it, you have to facilitate it.
