Your Core Is the Real MVP, Not Just Your Six Pack

Let’s clear something up:

Your core isn’t for show. It’s for performance.

And most of you are treating it like an afterthought, doing a few crunches at the end of your session like it’s f*cking 2008.

A brand new meta analysis looked at nearly 1000 athletes across 29 studies.

What did they find?

Core training jacked up overall athletic performance, especially core endurance and balance.

The carryover to sport? Massive.

But here’s the thing, it wasn’t 500 sit ups or 2mins of mountain climbers that moved the needle.

It was the real stuff:

The kind of sh*t that makes your spine bulletproof and your movement smooth under fatigue.

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✅ Do 2–3 core focused sessions/week
✅ Prioritise exercises that resist movement, and create it
✅ If you’re in a sport, build the core qualities you need, endurance, balance, or power transfer

Your core is what connects upper and lower body.

Without it? You’re a sack of meat with limbs.

Solid bracing, rotational control, and spinal endurance, that’s what keeps your lifts clean and your game sharp.

You want a body that performs?

Then train the part that holds it all together.