Dr. Andy Galpin

Lastly here is look.

Unfortunately, and as you'll see from the research here in one moment, investigating muscle growth for your core muscles is extraordinarily challenging.

There's very, very, very little research on muscle growth.

in this area.

You could, in theory, try to find an MRI or an ultrasound machine, and I think you're going to struggle.

What we have been doing more recently, personally, is I have a program actually called Optima Muscle.

This uses a Springbok MRI technology, and it's actually reasonably affordable for some.

It's pretty fast, and you can get an MRI scan done, and it outlines the exact volume and size

of over 140 muscles on your body.

And so you can look at symmetry, you can look at fat infiltration, and you can start to see things like this either at a baseline or as a pre and post, right?

We did this and we trained like this six months later, did my core actually grow?

It's really unfortunate, but you can't measure your core muscles with a tape measure.

You can't do, like images are hard to do because so much of how your core appears is based upon your body weight and your fat.

Most other muscles, it's a little bit easier.

I can take a picture, I can use a tape measure on your biceps and triceps and deltoids to see if they're bigger.

If you really want to know the size of your obliques and your spinal erectors, the only thing, again, I'm really aware of is that type of MRI technology, but

To be really clear, I have a conflict of interest here.

This is something I make money on and sell to people.

So don't need to do it.

Plenty of you can get everything you need from your core and abs doing those functional tests or any other thing that we've used before.