Balancing Core Strength
Balancing Core Strength

Perfect your workout balance when it comes to training your core muscles and building core strength.

#107 - Dr. Stuart McGill: Training with Low Back Pain
#107 - Dr. Stuart McGill: Training with Low Back Pain

Dr. Stuart McGill talks about lower back pain, how personality impacts recovery, and understanding how to ACTUALLY train your core.

A Core Training Blueprint for the Athlete
A Core Training Blueprint for the Athlete

It’s a simple model that uses stabilization, strength, and sport transfer to build the core of your athletes.

6 Exercises to Strengthen the Spinal Erectors
6 Exercises to Strengthen the Spinal Erectors

This article will focus on the spinal erectors, when one needs to place a focus on them, the exercises/equipment used to strengthen them, and how the variations should be used, progressed, and changed throughout the training process.

How to Effectively Train Core Strength
How to Effectively Train Core Strength

My idea of developing core strength is by both locally and globally training all the musculature that is attached to the hips, specifically by focusing on programming planks.

A Meathead’s Take on the Army Combat Readiness Test
A Meathead’s Take on the Army Combat Readiness Test

Maybe this is coming from a place of bias and resentment, because at a lean 205 pounds, I was always the fat guy with a two-mile time over 14 minutes…but I digress.

Shit Coaches Need to Stop Telling Their Clients
Shit Coaches Need to Stop Telling Their Clients

Honestly, there are so many that I could go on forever. Within my sarcastic tone, I hope the message that comes across is simple.

WATCH: Rapid Fire Table Talk with Dr. John Rusin
WATCH: Rapid Fire Table Talk with Dr. John Rusin

Over half an hour of non-stop Q&A, responding directly to questions from elitefts readers.

 Tighten That Belt
Tighten That Belt

How strong is your core really? Do you give it as much attention as you do your other muscles when you squat or deadlift or even when you’re doing bicep curls in the squat rack (just kidding about that last point)?

Are Plank Exercises for You?
Are Plank Exercises for You?

One of the latest rages in the fitness industry is the plank exercise. In essence, plank refers to maintaining your body in a straight line from head to toe, as for example, in the up position of a push-up.

Ab Mania
Ab Mania

The abdominals are the most overemphasized muscle group in physical training.

 Fascia Function: Building a Tough Trunk
Fascia Function: Building a Tough Trunk

Bodybuilding is here to stay. As long as there is a desire to get stronger, grow bigger, or look better, bodybuilding will remain an invariable foundation in the world of physique improvement.

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