How to Engage Your Core | Roller Derby Athletics

How to "engage your core" by finding your transverse abdominis, and then a few exercises to help you strengthen it to improve your roller derby performance. For tons more background and detail, visit the blog post at www.rollerderbyathletics.com/engage-your-core

[@markrakozy405]

this is the best I have seen to engage transverse abdominal muscles!!

[@dattatreyatelharkar5895]

The best clip on "engaging the core" I have ever seen.

[@jennydb91]

Great excercise, thanks. I am very heavy in the bottom part of my body, so the side plank especially is awful and I start hurting in my arms when doing it… think my arms are too weak to hold my weight 😂

[@daves9355]

I don't get the difference between sucking in your stomach and engaging the transverse abdominis via pulling belly button towards spine. BOTH do that...

[@chelle5413]

Just signed up for the app! I’m super excited to start this program. Derby training/try-outs start this upcoming Wednesday

[@dattatreyatelharkar5895]

Despite watching no of clips on engaging core,I did not get a feel about it. But today I UNDERSTOOD! Thanks to your teaching capacity and making it simpler to understand. I want to learn as much as possible from you. Tell me how I should go about it. Thanks a ton !

[@paulinebarnard1014]

Can't wait to try some of these and make it a regular exercise for me. Thank you

[@LorisAyoub]

this is so awesome thank you! I have a question, on the resting position, should I always tuck my tummy in? should I breath and the air should go to my tummy or my chest? I have those 2 inquiries. Thanks a million.

[@natashawest5174]

This is an awesome demo,!!! Thanks so much :)

[@DelroyCraig]

I shake like a leaf doing the first exercise, am I doing it correct?

[@MadieyHH]

Delroy Craig when you shake it is just meaning your working the muscles so yes you are doing it right!

[@MadieyHH]

From A Booty to another Booty! Thank you so much my coach has always told me engage my core but I honestly thought it wasn’t an muscles. Thank you so much for this I’m going to put it in my workout routines❤️

[@markiz8777]

Are there exercises safe for Diastasis recti and umbilical hernia?

[@bhavesh2323]

Really good

[@hadeerahmed2241]

Should I engage my core during these exercises?

[@tank7162]

No just relax it

[@potrelviewer9536]

For me, it's not the engagement of the transverse that poses a problem in itself, but the fact that my lungs and the rest of my belly locks itself as soon as the transverse is activated is really problematic (thankfully the heart still functions). That's an issue that I've had since I was a toddler, alongside many coordination issues: only learned to walk past 36 months, crawled just at 9 months, can't do any compound movement (opposite arms & legs) without my brain entering mode "ERROR 404". I'm not trying to become the next John Cena or any other buffed catcher, but I only want to be able to do the easiest variant of the functional movements that every human should be able to do naturally. I don't want to spend the rest of my life bedridden...

[@zumbafanification51]

How do you engage your TVA at all times?

[@incimlolo3623]

All my attempts are in vain 😭😭

[@mreudeco]

Definitely a sexy cat