Fitness Should Be a Core Course

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The stable midsection - the core - is at the center of a fit body. And it may be more valuable to daily living and our fitness pursuits than we realize. A new review of studies shows that a stable core can help us move efficiently and plays a role in preventing injuries in the legs, hips and buttocks. The review appears this month in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

We have to think of the core not as an isolated entity, but as one of our fitness links. "We joke about the hip bone being connected to the thigh bone, the thigh bone connected to the knee bone, yet that's very true," said the report's lead author, John Willson, a physical therapist at the University of Delaware in Newark.

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Fitness Should Be a Core Course

First, some basics. Know the difference between core stability and core strength. We develop core strength by doing ...

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