45-degree torso holds have become some of our favorite positional strength movements over the past few years. Rather than isolating the abdominals, these “core” movements challenge the hip flexors and test the athlete’s or lifter’s ability to respect the length-tension relationship of the abdominals. If you’re looking to build core strength, you’d be doing yourself …
Core training for powerlifters should be just like anything else you do in training: specific to the athlete’s goal. In this case, the goal of powerlifting is to lift as much weight as possible for 1 rep in the squat, bench press and deadlift. So should a powerlifter’s core training regimen be similar to that …
The reverse crunch is a fantastic anterior core exercise that we use frequently with our athletes at Cressey Sports Performance. While things like planks and rollouts teach you to resist extension, the reverse crunch uses the abs and oblique to create flexion from a neutral position, which is a necessary motion that many athletes lose from …
