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Timing is Everything - Core Timing That Is
When we get injured, we tend to focus around the hurting body part. You roll an ankle, you rehab the ankle. Your knee hurts, and the focus becomes the muscles around the knee.
We also tend to fall back on strength to fix the problem.
We rationalize that we got injured because we weren’t ‘strong enough’ and next time we will perform better if we become stronger.
Without a doubt, there is definitely a place for strength conditioning, BUT, the injury may not have come from where you thought.
Sure the ankle rolled, but was it due to a faulty ankle? The knee buckled, but is that because the knee was ‘weak’? The low back hurts, but is that the result of you having ‘moved in a weird way’?
These may have contributed, but I would like to highlight an underlying reason that typically goes undiagnosed that may be contributing to your pains and injuries.
It often comes down to faulty movement patterns and a lag in your core timing.
If your core is really working properly, it should anticipate the movement and turn on a split second before any movement occurs. This requires your brain to understand the movement before you move.
When an injury occurs, there are two things that may have happened:
1. Your core timing is off which leads to an instability somewhere.
For example, a quick change of direction. Your torso turns to go, but the lag of core timing causes your knee to buckle inward.
2. A past pain or injury created a compensation movement pattern, which leads to pain elsewhere.
If you twist an ankle but keep going, you will end up changing your gait or limping slightly, which creates a hip hike and the next thing you know, you have back pain.
That split second that your timing is off adds up to hours, days, months and years of reinforcing a poor pattern.
This compensation is bound to create pain and injury at some point.
Maybe not today or tomorrow, but it will catch up to you. And it will seem like THAT moment is what caused the injury, whereas really it was poor core timing creating compensations.
How do you avoid this and significantly decrease your chance of injury?
By constantly rechecking basic core function, you can determine if you are compensating. The solution may be as simple as all you need to do is re-pattern your core in order to get the right muscles working for you.
For this, you need to know what and how to check.
This is the whole reason I spent countless hours designing the Simply Core Program
that is simple enough for anyone to be able to test their own core.
There is no point in trying to train hard at ‘level 10’ intensity and yet not be able to stabilize at level 1.
Connect to your deep core, create proper movement and stabilization patterns and stay out of pain!
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