In all of my years training clients in rehabilitation, usually the simplest methods are the most effective, but are also the methods often overlooked by many when searching for answers to their injury. And when it comes to chronic back pain this is often the case. Don't get me wrong there is a lot of things that will need to be addressed and looked at in order to effectively treat the problem for a long term success. But we are so often blinded by symptoms and looking for ways to get out of pain and asking what you can do to "fix me", we forget to ask the better question being, WHY am I in pain? What is the cause of this problem? What are the things I keep doing to aggravate my condition? When you find the answers to these questions you are halfway towards the road of full rehabilitation and never suffering with your problem again. This article is not to diagnose you or put a label on your pain but show you a very simple methods of narrowing down the focus on WHY you have pain in the first place. This then narrows down your choice of corrective strategies to use.

To truly develop Core Strength and Stability requires a lot more than holding a plank for a few minutes and few thousand crunches. The abdominal wall require a great deal of exercise variation, because they occupy such a large area of your body and are needed in almost every movement you do. If you have ever torn your abs like I have, trust me you will know just how often you use them. In order to get full use you must address upper abs, lower abs, and obliques, and each requires a different type of exercise. Most people think the best abdominal exercises are crunches, sits ups and pilates style training. And while these might do some good and even improve your abdominal strength, they are not what "core strength" really is. And they definitely do not improve reflex stability or how you move. The best type of abdominal training you can do, is by using exercises utilizing what is known as the slings of the body. These are completed in a standing position that integrate arms and legs together in one simultaneous action. This is where stabilizers and movement based muscles work together in a sequence to produce optimal movement. And the first time you ever learned how to do this was when you were a baby. Before you had strength in your arms and legs to get around you were able to wiggle, roll and crawl which all came from your trunk, or what most people refer to as the core.

Do you want to improve the quality of your life?
Do you want to look and feel better than you have in years – maybe better than you ever have before?
Do you want to protect yourself from disease and injury? And do you want to live a longer, more vital life?
I‟m confident that you answered YES! To each of those questions, just as have the hundreds of clients myself and my team of trainers have coached, and trained in our years as CHEK Practitioners and Certified Personal Trainers
Right now I‟m going to reveal to you the 10 essential strategies that have enabled my clients to achieve these important goals.
These simple strategies can be immediately implemented into your lifestyle with little sacrifice on your part