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Majority of people when they’re doing it are using the upper part of the core or the hip flexors that from the belly button to the pubic bone is usually forgotten about.
Today we’re going to talk about that. First and foremost, there are four abdominal muscles that we have that we’re going to talk about that make up the core. In my opinion, the core actually runs from here to here, front and back.
The shoulder to the upper thigh, front side of your body and the backside of your body, it’s basically, what’s known as the axial part of your skeleton. It’s not the arms or the legs, because if you don’t have a strong structure in here, you’re basically trying to build a mansion of your dreams on a foundation of sand.
In order to really use this part effectively to connect the upper part to the lower part of your body, we’re going to focus on these four muscles.
Rectus Abdominis: The 6-Pack Muscles
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The first muscle that we have is the most superficial of the lot. It’s called your rectus abdominis. That is known as the beach muscles, the six-pack muscles. That’s the one that everybody looks at when they’re trying to get lean.
That’s like the focal point. It actually runs from the bottom of your rib cage and your rib margin all the way down to your pubic bone. It allows you to flex the spine. It allows you when you’re doing your crunches to come up, but it really does. And this is really important. It allows the pubic pelvis to move backwards and go into posterior tilt.
Now, deep to that, you have the internal and external obliques. They are running side to side, that kind of crisscross pattern. They come up and work against each other. You’re working the internal oblique and the external oblique thing, work to stabilize and mobilize each other in the same movement, these guys allow us to rotate.
Obliques & Transversus Abdominis
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They allow us to stabilize. If we’re holding something heavy on the other side and laterally selects really important because they connect right down to the rectus abdominis and to the other.
That’s the most important one that transversus abdominis, which is deep to all of them. Now, the one thing about the transversus abdominis or the TVA is that it actually runs across the body and connects all the way around from the front to the back. It acts as the body’s corset or weight belt.
The only way that we can actually contract this is through a forced exhale because it’s here to stabilize and connect the top part of our body to the bottom corner of our body. Does that make sense? Okay. Now that we understand the anatomy of it, well, let’s talk about the actual movement.
Most people think of core work, they think of doing crunches or they think of doing reverse crunches, or they think of doing like pain crunches.
Connect Upper And Lower Body
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The majority of that will get a lot of your abdominal area. The majority of times, most people forget from the belly button to the pubic bone. It’s often forgotten because we have these big three big hip flexors that are sitting right here.
If we don’t connect this, that directly affects the low back. Today we’re going to learn how to do that. All right. From the records of darkness, from the written margin to the pubic bone, from the rid margin to the belly button, anytime we lift our head up off of anything, anytime you push against gravity, anytime we cough, anytime we sneezed, we’re using this.
This guy is pretty taken care of from the belly button to the pubic bone. This often gets lost. Why? Because we sit a lot. When we sit a lot, we drop in and we can press in and collapse.
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And this tends to not get supported. The other thing too is for women, when we have babies, this gets overstretched and then we lose the ability to be able to contract this also hernias and the alight, the majority of time, we are not using this area.
First the thing we’re going to do is we’re going to think about our belly button and we’re going to take the belly button only because it’s the middle. Everybody knows where their belly button is. Nowhere your belly button is think about the string, going straight through your belly button with the weight on the inside.
I want you to think about pulling your belly button straight down towards your feet. Good. Okay. So what you notice with Ms. Sophie go ahead. Relaxed is that she actually was able to stabilize her belly button right in for the spine. What most people will do is they’ll suck it up into their chest and drive all of the Eric into their chest.
Isolate The Lower Back And Belly
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Like they’re holding their breath. What we want to do is we want to be able to isolate just this area. Take the belly button, pull it down into the spine. Good. What you’re thinking of is a suction cup that comes down and pulls everything in.
Now, the one thing about muscles is they always pull. They never push and they actually contract into one another. Muscles are always doing a pull effect and the body is actually a pulley system. Every time you were pulling, then the joints that the muscles are attached to will then start to move like the bicep attached to the forearm and the bicep contracts move the arm.
Same thing with the pelvis. What we’re working with are the hip joints and then the lower lumbar area. First thing you’re going to do is pull the belly button into the spine. Perfect. Now this is going to be a party just for the belly button to the pubic bone.
Pull The Belly Button Toward The Spine
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What you don’t want is anything from the belly button up to the rid margin plane or the head, and you don’t want the legs to be involved either. Okay? So we’ve gotten step one down. Step two is, think about having two ropes that attach from your belly button to your pubic bone.
And remember we pull from the muscles. The belly button comes down to the spine. You have two ropes that are attached to the piece. The belly button comes down to the spine. You have two ropes that are attached to the pubic bone. Now those ropes are going to actually pull down and back.
If you notice, when she pulled down and back, her pelvis actually tips back because the pubic bone is actually part of the pelvis and that’s creating movement in the spine. Perfect and relaxed. Again, we’re going to do this again, take the, pull the belly button into the spine, take the two ropes and pull the two ropes back.
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Perfect. Okay. So next the body relax. If you want to feel what this is supposed to feel like and what the body does naturally, you’re going to take a deep breath in, through your mouth, around in circle.
You actually worked with a forced exhale. If you want to feel what this is supposed to feel like and what the body does naturally, you’re going to take a deep breath in, through your mouth, obviously.
When you blow out, you’re gonna put your teeth together and you’re going to blow out like you’re shushing somebody very loud. You’re going to blow it, come in, blow out all of the air, escapes out of your mouth.
Go ahead and take a deep breath and blow out. Okay. What I want to hear is I want to actually hear that sh I want you to shush me from the other side of the room.
Shush!
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You’re going to take a deep breath in and you’re going to shush me . If you notice, as soon as she does that, all of the body parts start to work because that’s your body’s natural defense for anything that’s going on is it’s trying to contract the body and support it from the upper half to the lower half. Okay?
So try that at home. Take a deep breath in. I want you to shush. I want you to hear it. Like you’re shushing your child, your husband, your wife, your neighbor, your dog, whoever you want to shush the heck out of them.
Okay. And your body will naturally do that. Once you’ve got that, sheesh, now you’ll feel it should be a really deep feeling in here. Got it. Okay. Now you’ve gotten this, we’re going to move on to the next. I’m going to have you bend your knees.
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Now that we have the knees bent, the one thing that people will want to do is they’ll want to push from their heels. The reason why we don’t push from their heels is because the heels are way farther away from the blues and the hip than the glutes actually are.
Posterior Tilt
We want to think about the joint. That’s closest to the muscle that we’re trying to affect. The two muscles that we’re working with are the abdominal muscles. They’re going to turn on the glues. We’re doing this posterior tilt, we still have to drive from the abs because the abdominal core is what is supporting the glute structure. There.
They jumped in align with one another, right? Their partners, their wind men, their cohorts, whatever you want to say, they work together. This doesn’t get invited to the party. This doesn’t get invited to the party, exclusive party from the belly button to the pubic bone.
Chronic Back Pain Help In San Diego
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That’s it, you guys. If they’re doing this, you’re actually going to be able to notice if your body parts start working and what’s being used more so than the other. This is when parts will start to show up for you.
Again, belly button goes into the spine, then you’re going to use your ropes. You’re going to pull your belly button or your pubic bone towards your belly button. Perfect. Now, if you notice Sophie’s pelvis just rolled along with her because she’s doing it from the abs.
The abs are driving this motion and hit her. Her back would become flushed to the table. Go ahead and relax. Now if I have Sophie just use her legs and press from her heels and push up into a posterior tilt head.
If you notice she goes into an arch and she doesn’t actually use her abs to do it, and you can actually see the difference in there, come back down.
