Your core works to stabilize your torso and permit movement throughout your body. Keeping a strong healthy core is vital when it comes to exercise and day to day life.

Your main core muscles:

• Rectus abdominis
• Transverse abdmoninis
• Internal and external obliques
• Quadratus lumborum (part of your lower back)
• Multifidus  (muscles in the spine)

These muscles help you not only in the gym but with day to day activities also. Training them is crucial!

5 reasons to train your core

1.) 6 PACK – Your Abdominal muscles make up a huge part of your core and doing exercises like sit ups, leg raises and crunches will help tone your abs and get that famous 6 pack look.

2.) RID YOURSELF OF LOWER BACK PAIN – Doing exercises like back extensions and anything that targets the lower back region will really help you prevent any lower back injuries.

3.) FLEXIBILITY – Exercises that consist of lateral flexion or rotation of your trunk will help keep your core muscles and spine flexible.

4.) POSTURE – So many people suffer from back problems because they spend hours slumped over there desk at work. Strengthening your core will help straighten out your back and ultimately improve posture.

5.) STRENGTH – For the weight lifters out there you will be pleased to know that strengthening your core will massively help with strength based exercises.