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True or False? Your Back Pain Will Vanish Forever if You Train Your "Core"! Plus: What Actually is the F*** "Core"?

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Do people really suffer from back pain because they are not doing exercises like this everyday, or are we rather dealing with a more fundamental problem? One that is related to the general reluctance to move further than from the couch to the fridge and back? What do you think? You will probably be aware that the #1 trigger of back pain in today's society is our sedentary lifestyle. Today, more than 50% of the US adults are affected by chronic back pain (Rozenberg. 2008). Against that background it appears logical to assume that it would help if you strengthen you deep trunk muscles, but is that actually true? And how does one do that (best)? Currently, no standardized system has been established analyzing and comparing the results of core strength training and typical resistance training. Therefore, Wen-Dien Chang, Hung-Yu Lin, and Ping-Tung Lai conducted a systematic review of the results of previous studies to explore the effectiveness of various core strength training s...
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Integrated Core Exercises for Six-Pack Abs: New EMG Data Questions Efficacy of Crunches, Extensions & Co.

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Image 1: Jersey Shore or a fortified core, what do you chose? (img mediabistro ) If you train in one of the mainstream gyms, you will probably already have realized: It is May, and the beach season is approaching! Now, that it is almost too late for the chubby coach-potatoes to get in shape, they finally realize that their never-existent six-pack is buried under several layers of flabby adipose tissue... so what do they do? Right, they perform the most ridiculous contortions, .. ah, pardon, "ab-exercises" you can think about and talk to their pre-obese neighbor on the right about how they feel their abs working during their latest and greatest Men's Health, Shape and Co "Jersey Shore Ready Beach Workout 2012" ;-) Strong core and six-pack abs, anyone? Most of the aforementioned spring-break warriors would be better off dieting hard, and lifting heavy, but I don't have to tell you that, right? Lean or about-to-be-lean as you are, you are probably mor...
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Step By Step Guide to Your Own Workout Routine - Part V: Example Routines - Round 3: A Detailed Strength Workout

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Image 1: Being strong has gotten somewhat out of fashion these days. Apropos fashion, can you imagine David Beckham doing that ? Aside from Thursday, when Adelfo "guest lectures" here at the SuppVersity , you usually have to content yourselves with the sometimes more, sometimes less knowledgeable stuff I am putting out on a daily basis. For today's sixth installment, you are yet lucky that I could convince my friend Sean Casey from CasePerformance to take care of the strength workout template in the " Step By Step Guide to Build Your Own Workout Routine " series. And though Sean, modest as he is, started out his article with a the words "I would like to thank my friend Adel aka Dr.Andro for giving me the opportunity to share a one week sample strength training regimen  with the SuppVersity community", I am the one to say "thank you", sit back and just have Sean take you through your new workout routine ;-) Sean Casey's Strength ...
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SuppVersity EMG Series - Rectus Abdominis, Obliques and Erector Spinae: The Very Best Exercises For Sixpack Abs and a Powerful Midsection

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Image 1: There is more to a strong core than just the m. rectus abdominis aka 'the abs' (red);  its imperative to train your obliques (blue) and the muscle strands of the erector spinae muscles which stabilize your spine (violette) " 6 weeks to 6-pack abs " - although we all know that this is unattainable for the majoritity of beer-bellied casual Men's Health reader, headlines like that still make the sales of today's fitness magazines go up. On the other hand, Charles Atlas, John Grimek, Ray Parks, Eugen Sandow and the other fathers of physical culture would certainly turn in their graves, if they saw the metrosexual size zero bans on the covers of respective 'lifestyle' magazines and read about the 'cult of sculpted abs' that has befallen their 'grandchildren'... well, I guess you don't care about those 'grandpas', let alone my rants, and still want your sixpack to shine in its full glory on the next spring break, n...
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