Suitcase Carry For Core Strength & Endurance | Plymouth Chiropractors
Channel: REACH Rehab + Chiropractic Performance Center
Date: 17/05/2018

➡️ Suitcase Carry for Core Strength & Endurance ⬅️ #47
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🔸WHAT IS THIS?🔸⠀
A true functional core exercise. Functional, meaning the exercise has real-world applications, such as walking down the airport terminal with an old-school suitcase w/o wheels. ⠀
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🔸WHAT IS IT TRAINING?🔸⠀
🤓 Nerd version: anti-lateral flexion and rotation challenge of the abdominal musculature activating to stabilize the lumbar spine, maintain an upright position, and provide a punctum fixum (fixed point) for efficient movement of the extremities.⠀
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👌Not-so-nerd version: your core strength and endurance in anti-movement/bending -- the way it works in life outside of the gym!⠀
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🔸WHEN SHOULD I USE IT?🔸⠀
If you carry stuff with one arm, you're already doing it without knowing it. So, pretty much anywhere anytime. However, it's a phenomenal replacement for bending, twisting abs moves. Increase or decrease the weight or duration to meet your needs.⠀
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🔸WHY SHOULD I CARE?🔸⠀
Abs exercises consisting of repetitive bending, like crunches, pose a much higher risk than reward.⠀
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Like when bending a paper clip back and forth (it eventually snaps!) we only have so many bends in our back before we start creating problems. We already sit all day, stare at screens, and round at the back to pick up stuff off the ground -- we don't need more bending.⠀
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The core is not your abs, rather the collection of abdominal musculature working together in concert to establish a stable anchor from which the arms and legs muscles create movement. The core is meant to give you the foundation to do activities like go for a run, play with your kids, and chop wood. None of those activities require you to squeeze your abs and bend forward.⠀
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Unless you're prepping for a bodybuilding contest, crunches are not worth your time, effort, and peace of mind. Even then, your diet has more impact on the way your abs look than crunches!

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