Core training: Stabilizing the confusion

Strength and Conditioning Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 10-25

  Faries, Mark D ^a   Greenwood, Mike ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Baylor University ^*

Author keywords

Core; Core musculature; Core stability; Core strength; Functional training; Lumbo pelvic hip complex; Multifidus; Spinal stability; Transversus abdominus

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248646005     PISSN: 15241602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1519/00126548-200704000-00001     Document Type: Article

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