Why Strong Core Muscles are Important?

There are a lot of facts and fictitious information about the core muscles. The core muscles, here are your spine; it is just a set of stackers. They sit on top of each other and the most important is the area between your lower lumbar spine and your pelvis. This is a highly critical area in what is called your axial skeleton – which is the skeleton that carries most of you. Now, the problem is that the weight that is transferred down through your spine, direction is straight down (vertical) past the hip section to the feet. But, to do so, it has to be transferred to your pelvis and transferred through two big joints, which are wobbly. Everything is wobbly. So, as you go to take a step, this weight is still coming down straight, and as a result, everything gets crunched and twists and has to adjust and move around so that you can move your way along, ambulate, or jump, or move, or even do something very simple like sit or stand.

What are core muscles?

For you to do these things with an inherently wobbly structure, you need support. This support comes from the core muscles. They involve the muscles of your back, your psoas, which are joined to the front of your spine and run down to both of your hips. Lastly, the core muscles involve your buttock muscles and your abdomen. So, combined, these are your core muscles.

So, you have to have a solid structure around your pelvis and abdomen regions so that when you stand, nothing moves. You have to have strong abdominal muscles, side gluteal muscles, and back muscles. Therefore, you can consider it as a barrel of muscles that allow you to do what you like and there is no excess stress on all these tiny little joints in the spine and within the pelvic region.

Importance of core muscles

Therefore, what is the essence of core muscles? Core is the basis of all movement for humans, especially in sports. Here are how strong core muscles are beneficial.

  • If your muscles are strong you take a lot of pressure off the discs and the joints.
  • If the muscles are strong and supportive then you are much less likely to injure these structures in the pelvic and your back. Therefore these structures are much less likely to send messages to muscles to say protect me.
  • If the muscles are strong you are much less likely to tear, stress or injure muscles in your lumbosacral area; which is the most common area to get injured because all the stress comes through that.

So, if you have a strong core you can create a lot of power and strength through your core. So for example, baseball players hitting the bat, and sprinters running, need such power and strength. 

In conclusion, core muscle strength gives you stability, gives you the ability to do whatever you need to do, protects you from injury and chronic pain, and protects you from trigger points because they are strong and responsive.