I agree one thousand percent, even before going to the McGill site (which I will do when I finish talking - it's a girl thing) I can trust it is yet another great contribution from the Lynn Blake camp. The key word here is 'sturdiest'. You have to always evaluate your objective and your starting point. Often people think of the 'core' of the body being just the abdominal region ( it is up to your neck and to mid thigh, for the record). If your hip flexors are not substantially balanced with the abs, and extensors and lats on the back, you can easily create a problem. Also the 'way' you twist your body during this action is critical. I often see people doing twisting exercises with a rounded back which is the antethisis of their physical objective. The function of the muscles on the front and back of the spine are designed to antagonize each other's action to keep the vertebrae (those 27 joints that comprise the spine) decompressed during "all" movement. If you are setting yourself up for compression, you are in the wrong form. Maybe we need to get a camera on this issue.
Thanks for your contribution. This is foundational to all training and you hit the mark.
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