A long time ago, when you were just a baby before you were able to walk, your inner core started developing.

You didn’t have an outer core yet.  Your inner core develops in stages and finally to the stage where it could stabilize enough to recruit your arms and legs to get up onto your feet.  (We will discuss HOW this happens in a future blog).

Then, you became a kid, your inner core is fully developed.  You ran, jumped off and climbed trees, did cartwheels and all sorts of fun things as your mobility muscles started to develop with skill.  You became in control of your mobility muscles and your movement.  Life Is Great! 😆

Then, perhaps you were injured as a man, or had a baby as a woman, resulting in a neurological disconnect.  There is a part of your brain that will want to protect the body so that it shuts off the automaticity of movement.  The inner core fires automatically,  activated by the brain with Intention of movement.    This was your brains’ way of refusing to stabilize you and not wanting you to move in order to protect yourself until you recovered.

If you are a man and you are injured, your brain says, “Keep going, don’t stop”, this is hormonally driven.  The testosterone is talking, it is the hunter in you, so you keep training, but in a sports specific sort of way. Like doing crunches and abdominal exercises in hope to regain the ‘core’ strength you had.   Little did you know that your inner core was still there, anxiously waiting for recruitment to do its’ job and stabilize your spine so your mobility muscles can have complete freedom of movement.

You fail to retrain the inner core, so now you have become very good at using your buttocks and thighs to help stabilize you, or so you thought, which made your mobility muscles work overtime and function in a role that they are not meant to do, stabilize!   You became very good at clenching your butt, and moving without full capacity, not knowing you were borrowing from your moving muscles, and  taking away from their job.   You are also creating another pelvic floor with the clenching of your buttocks and that area becomes stiff and immobile. This leads to muscle tears, groin pulls and most of all, decreased power and less Athlete available for you or your trainers to train.

For a woman, after she has a baby, there is also the neurological disconnect to the body.   But what happens to a woman, is quite different.  The hormones of pregnancy will act on the pelvic floor fibrotic tissue allowing it to loosen up the joints in preparation for the birth of the baby.   After the baby, she also fails to retrain the inner core/pelvic floor and then she starts experiencing, protruding low abdominals that don’t go away.  Incontinence issues.  Sex drive decrease.  Eventually may lead to hip replacement or knee surgery.  She is trying to mend and hold up her organs with Kegel exercises and that just doesn’t cut it.  NO WAY the Kegel muscles can’t hold up the 40 1bs of internal organs, nor is it meant to.  The true floor of the core, the pelvic floors’ innermost layer is just hanging out..LITERALLY,  waiting to be awakended to support the 40 1bs, so the kegals, hips and knees don’t have to do yet aother job. 

The inner core is something that no one talks about.  I am privileged to share this with you.  It IS the missing link to true core development. This retraining of the core takes time and commitment.

Basically starting over on how to use your body correctly from the inside out.

In the long run…you will run long, and far, in anything you do.

It’s never too late to re-acquaint yourself to an Inner Truth.

When you are 90 years old and your mobility muscles aren’t quite as good as they used to be, you WILL be able to get off the toilet without using handrails. Because now you know about the inner core, it will prevail; it is what you used to get up in the first place!

Note:     You were 3 years old before your inner core was completely developed… this invisible but valuable and strongest muscle of your body takes time, commitment and patience to get re-acquainted.

I am your facilitator.