Core Blimey

// April 11th, 2006 // Physio Diary

Having had the lower body assessment yesterday with Kinesis, today my personal physio Mel has given me the first few exercises aimed at improving my core. Apparently I could be a more efficient runner and a more powerful cyclist if I sort out my core strength.

Now I always thought that core stength could be improved by doing a few situps and gym ball exercises. It would appear it’s much more subtle than this. The first exercise is targetting the pelvic floor muscle and involves doing the following:

Lying on your back with knees bent.
Breathing in deeply
Bringing the left leg up towards the chest whilst, uhem….”trying to move your willy” or “preventing yourself from peeing”
Breath out and repeat nine more times
Do 1 to 4 with right leg

So off I go.