Training the core properly

• galapogos

  23 Sep 07, 23:43

  Well, there are alternatives. You can use a regular resistance tube but you'd have to stand a bit closer since they're shorter than correction bands.
  
  Or you could do prone cobras, though these usually involve some back hyper extension like the McKenzie press...actually might not be that bad an idea for flat backers as a 2-in-1 exercise maybe?
• davidche

  24 Sep 07, 19:29

  Is cobra about lying down, facing on the mat and then bending back up?
• galapogos

  24 Sep 07, 19:52

  That's the prone cobra, but the focus is not on bending your back, it's about bringing your hands backwards. The bending of the back is just a side effect of doing it prone.
• davidche

  24 Sep 07, 20:05

  oh i see. thx
• davidche

  25 Sep 07, 16:31

  Dumbell rows also help to build strengh in the scapular. Correct me if im wrong.
• galapogos

  25 Sep 07, 22:21

  Only if you do them correctly.