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A critique of all things related to functional fitness
i was asked about the core training system and core training via email. yes, the core training system (CTS) can be used to directly train the core. however. i use the term Core Design to describe your “perfect” total body posture. its the ideal posture for your body. your Core Design gets violated by poor postural habits and it’s what we used the CTS to help restore. see the difference?
I’m often asked how to overcome chronic pain; well, for me the first notion thrown into my mental wastebasket was that we are “ghosts in the machine,” wherein the mind and body are two different entities. After years of buying into this culturally created phenomenon, I began to believe human beings are a unified whole that can’t be so readily separated. It’s often said that an infant’s ego and body are one in the same, as they haven’t yet accumulated mental associations and even conventional anatomy books recognize the human skin as the outer layer of the nervous system (i.e., your brain). It’s time we grasp the idea that our posture is also reflection of how we think and feel and that any true form of health can’t come at the expense of the mind or the body, but instead needs to embrace the unity of the two intertwined entities. Yup, this is the first step to overcoming chronic pain….
It seems everyone is using Swiss Balls for rehab and sports performance, but why? The balls activate the “core” and also increase the spinal loading (i.e., not good for rehab). The ball activate the “core” while you are not standing in gravity and only partially dealing with ground reactive forces (i.e., not good for sports performance). The balls are good for a change of pace to stimulate the nervous system and a different workout, but not as the primary workout.
I’ve received some emails about balance and posture and how the P.A.S.T. balance boards work to improve total body posture. Basically, the boards reduce your natural base of support to stimulate your centering reflexes and you instinctively align your body from the ground-up or you can’t stay on the center of the boards. It’s that simple! 
The most difficult concept for anyone to understand is that balance or the ability to deal with ground reactive forces and postural habits or how you deal with gravity largely determines the length tension about ALL the joints in the body and the core “transfer case” can’t do its job without the proper support below and above. Natural patterns of movement facilitate the motion through the center of the body and each muscle has its role; so, train movement and not muscles in isolation.
I’ve read where many experts, both real and wannabes, have decreed static posture to have very little relationship to actual movement. My first reaction is to cringe at this shortsighted understanding of posture, but then I realize it depends on a person’s perspective. For instance, how are they gauging static or in other words do they mean watching a person stand with poor posture and then be a phenomenal athlete and then state, “posture doesn’t matter?” If so, they are missing the idea of cumulative trauma disorder (CTD) and that the person who stands with poor posture will eventually develop muscle imbalances and this will ingrain their habits into their structure. However, the most ardent “static posture doesn’t matter” people might still claim muscle imbalances are irrelevant and don’t impede a person’s performance in life or on the field; however, just because the body can compensate doesn’t mean everything is ok. Heck, you can twist your body like a (yoga) pretzel without immediate injury, but this type of extreme adaptability is meant for short term survival needs and isn’t meant to be done daily! And yes, I understand Yoga was originally meant to expand consciousness, but that’s not how most of the power yoga crowd are using it….
Besides, what if people thought like me and didn’t believe a static really existed. The continuum ranges from postural sway (called static) all the way to agile reactions and thus, any imbalance in the length-tension of muscles around a joint will always impact the movement of your body thru space….
