The isolation of the internal oblique and transverse abdominals was a big topic of discussion at the seminar I was teaching yesterday. This now has become part part the folklore of training and rehab. I am amazed that people can’t take a step back and think through this whole process. Those muscles are deep abdominal muscles that are very hard, maybe impossible, to voultarly recruit. Yet people still insist on teaching their patients and and athletes to do that using the drawing in maneuver or abdominal hollowing. Stuart McGill in his research has debunked this. The hollowing in actually destabilizes the spine. One again remember that the body does not recognize individual muscles, it recognizes patterns of movements. Use movement that require those deep abdominal muscles to work as part of the bigger picture.
Isolating Abdominal Muscles
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