Does Core Stability and Core Strength Training Elicit an Improved Sports Performance?
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Does Core Stability and Core Strength Training Elicit an Improved Sports Performance? |
ASCH07 – Advanced Strength and Conditioning |
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Richard Graves |
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Introduction
Training for lumbopelvic stability – or core stability – is typically undertaken with the objective to either improve sports performance or to prevent injury (Gamble, 2010). However although there is substantial evidence supporting the use of core stability exercises for rehabilitation and injury prevention purposes, similar exercises have been promoted for sports conditioning and performance with little scientific evidence (Willardson, 2007). Movements of sport performance require the core musculature to simultaneously provide spinal stability while producing external forces that aid limb movement (Wagner 2010). Therefore in recent years, core stability exercises have been popularised for training healthy athletes (Willardson, 2007).
The objective of this review is to analyse the published literature surrounding the use of core stability training as a conditioning process for improving sports performance. Particular focus is made to the anatomy of core stability, the development of specific aspects relating to sport performance, such as functional movement within the kinetic chain principle, as well as an overview of training techniques and injury prevention.
The Anatomical Processes of Core Stability
The ‘core’ can be described as being a box of muscles in the abdomen, with the abdominals in the front, the paraspinals and gulteals in the back, the diaphragm at the top and the pelvic floor and hip girdle musculature at the bottom (Richardson et al. 1999, cited in Akuthota and Nadler, 2004). This region includes 29 pairs of muscles that hold the trunk steady, balancing and stabilising the pelvis, spine and thorax (McArdle et al. 2010). These pairs of muscles make up the core musculature, and can be divided into the local stabilisation system and the global stabilisation...
Does Core Stability and Core Strength Training Elicit an Improved Sports Performance? |
ASCH07 – Advanced Strength and Conditioning |
|
Richard Graves |
|
|
Introduction
Training for lumbopelvic stability – or core stability – is typically undertaken with the objective to either improve sports performance or to prevent injury (Gamble, 2010). However although there is substantial evidence supporting the use of core stability exercises for rehabilitation and injury prevention purposes, similar exercises have been promoted for sports conditioning and performance with little scientific evidence (Willardson, 2007). Movements of sport performance require the core musculature to simultaneously provide spinal stability while producing external forces that aid limb movement (Wagner 2010). Therefore in recent years, core stability exercises have been popularised for training healthy athletes (Willardson, 2007).
The objective of this review is to analyse the published literature surrounding the use of core stability training as a conditioning process for improving sports performance. Particular focus is made to the anatomy of core stability, the development of specific aspects relating to sport performance, such as functional movement within the kinetic chain principle, as well as an overview of training techniques and injury prevention.
The Anatomical Processes of Core Stability
The ‘core’ can be described as being a box of muscles in the abdomen, with the abdominals in the front, the paraspinals and gulteals in the back, the diaphragm at the top and the pelvic floor and hip girdle musculature at the bottom (Richardson et al. 1999, cited in Akuthota and Nadler, 2004). This region includes 29 pairs of muscles that hold the trunk steady, balancing and stabilising the pelvis, spine and thorax (McArdle et al. 2010). These pairs of muscles make up the core musculature, and can be divided into the local stabilisation system and the global stabilisation...