Dr Mel Siff Author of Supertraining Author of Facts and Fallacies of Fitness www.drmelsiff.com
view, all movementand stabilization occurs fromthe ground up….>>
*** Thisis a claimthatfar too manypeopletake for granted. Courses on
“Core Stabilisationâ€are offered by numerous fitness gurus,physical
therapists and fitness organisations, but few peopledare to make heretical remarksthatquestionthe ‘Core is All Important’ philosophy. If one has
backproblems, poortechniquein sport, lack of flexibility and so on, “blame iton deficiencies in corestabilityâ€is the cry.
An article thatI wrotefor several otherInternet discussion groupsis relevantin thisregard. ————————————– CORESTABILITY? MelSiff
Today, in the fitness and therapeuticworld, one of the latestbuzz terms;
is “corestability”and courses are cropping up everywhere to teachthis
amazing new discovery in the world of motorcontrol. The implicationsare
thatan athlete or normal human is somehowseriously deficient if core
stability exercises are not being donein someor otherdiscrete, isolated
fashion.
The beliefhere,of course,is thatisolated corestabilising exercises necessarilyimprove balance and postural control. They do not, since most
stabilisation and movementin sportswhere the handsand feet are in
contact witha surfacealso depends very strongly on PERIPHERALcontact
withthe givensurface(someexceptions are diving, airborne gymnastic and skatingmanoeuvres, and trampolining.) If thiscontact is inefficientor
unstable, then no amountof corestabilisation is goingto overcomeany
deficiency in peripheralstability.
Some simple examples- imagine what would happen to a gymnast or trapeze artistwithpooranklestrengthand stability or a huge weightlifterwith
great corestability but deficiencies in grip or anklestrengthand
stability? One could lista thousand similarexamples.
Thisconceptof a separate motorquality called “corestability”leadsto
the very faultybeliefthatcorestability is moreimportant and more
central to overall stability thanperipheralstability. The fact is that
the body is a linkedsystemof manyinteracting components, and current
“corestabilisation”dogma happens to be yet anotherexample of
isolationist training.To borrowa somewhatcliched termfromthe
vocabulary of the late SouthAfrican PrimeMinister,General Jan Smuts (who coinedthe word “holism”), it would be far better to talkabout“holistic;”
stability training.An emphasis on “corestability”is a steptowards
general instability,unless it is matchedby peripheralstabilisation. Onceupon a time we had kinaesthetic or proprioceptive trainingor even motorskill training- now we have “corestability”training, which is by
no means an suitablemodernsubstitute for what usedto be offered.
Possibly it is time for the whole “corestabilisation”industryneedsto
carefully re-examineitself and take a stepbackto its moresolidolder
roots. “Core stabilisation”may be a new term, but it offerslittleor
nothing new to fitness,therapyor sportstrainingthatwas not covered
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