Dr. Andy Galpin

I go nuts.

And I'll, my core will get huge cramps in it when I do it because I'm at a full, full, full contraction.

This is the same thing happens to me.

Sorry, it's a little bit gross, but if I vomit, it's like the most intense core contraction I've ever had from top to bottom.

And so your core has this ability to be like slightly on to go really high activation really fast where other muscles struggle for that.

So plant that in your back of your mind.

We have a muscle group or groups of muscles that are active a lot.

They're one of the only muscle groups that almost never turn off, most do.

Okay.

We also have the understanding, we've known this since like, I think there was a series of papers in 96 and 97 that came out from Paul Hodges and Carleen Richardson.

And it was this idea that's called fast forward stabilization.

So you may not realize this, but your core will actually turn on about 100 to 150 milliseconds before your limbs will start movement.

It's an anticipatory response.

And it goes right back to that finger and hand analogy I just gave you.

In order for my finger, if my finger is an arm or leg, to snap and contract, if that core isn't pre-activated, the arm itself can't do anything.

And so way before you will actually acknowledge it when you have an anticipation of a movement happening, whether that's because you practice it a lot or you've already pre-registered it subconsciously, you'll have that early activation of your core before your movement.

So that is another thing.

Okay.

It's activated early.

It's on all the time.