Why We Begin With Core Integration & Mat Workouts Before Resistance Training

“You want to have as much healthy movement as possible for you, and everybody's body is different,” explains Kristen Latteri, National Academy of Sports Medicine certified personal trainer. Kristen helps her clients to achieve their individual fitness goals in a way that is both fun and safe. If people don’t know how to properly do each exercise, they can actually be doing more harm than good to their body overall. 

 

Starting with core integration and working out on a mat, or a chair for people who are not yet ready to get down on the floor, is imperative to learning how to move your body in the healthiest way possible. Learning how to properly engage and integrate your core will stabilize your spine and pelvis so that your body is protected and your movements are safe. By laying down on a mat or sitting in a chair, you can keep your spine and pelvis in a neutral position while slowly adding in new types of movement. Once you learn how to properly engage your core and which muscles to use for each movement, you can start adding in things like weight, resistance training, and speed depending on your individual goals. 

 

Tune into this week’s episode of Movement: The Science of The Self to learn more about the importance of core integration and taking it back to the basics on a mat before moving on to more complicated exercises. 

 

Quotes

• “Your core is what's responsible for keeping your spine and your pelvis stable.” (7:28-7:33 | Kristen)

• “You want to have as much healthy movement as possible for you. Everybody's body is different.” (9:21-9:27 | Kristen)

• “To teach any movement, we start without weight.” (12:05-12:08 | Kristen)

• “If you don't know that you have a faulty movement pattern, you're going to just continue to recruit the wrong muscles, and then it can just continue on. So learning which muscles to recruit is really important.” (24:04-24:32 | Kristen)

• “Once you've mastered those basics, that's when you can safely progress and again. Depending on your goals and the person, you can add weight, resistance training, speed, all kinds of stuff.” (24:49-25:03 | Kristen)

 

Links

 

https://www.pongopower.com/kristen-latteri

https://www.pongopower.com/blog/feeling-a-bit-foggy-lately-use-exercise-and-dual-tasking-to-build-a-better-brain-part-1

https://www.pongopower.com/blog/feeling-a-bit-foggy-lately-use-exercise-and-dual-tasking-to-build-a-better-brain-part-2

https://www.pongopower.com/blog/dont-fear-the-fitness-assessment

https://www.pongopower.com/blog/how-using-your-core-protects-your-back-so-you-can-lead-your-fullest-life

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