Here’s my newest fitness rant, and one which is one of the biggest problems with most personal trainers and most of the media.

It’s to do with Core Stability.

When this term first started getting some headlines back about 10 years ago lots of people jumped on the idea that they could train and help people work on their core stability.

During this time we saw the proliferation of Pilates as it moved from a niche training regime almost exclusively used in the dancing arena to a mass participation fitness class designed to give anyone who participated in a class a ‘dancers’ like body.

We also saw the popularisation of stability balls and balance objects. As well as classes and equipment that claimed to be training your core stability – like some of those infomercial products.

Well it just doesn’t happen like that, the biggest problem is the ’spin doctors’, those people who look at the research and think I can use this to promote x, y or z.

In the majority of cases the people who spin it don’t actually understand what the science behind it all means and to what extent that can be utilised by the general population.

I’m not going to go into a whole long description of what core stability actually is as that would probably require some 1000’s of words.

Suffice to say what most people mean when they are talking about core stability, can better be classified as core strength – subtle differences in the two but very important ones.

Hope you enjoy it.

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