Group: Experienced Exercise

Experienced Exercise
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what muscles

lewdog_55
lewdog_55
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2002/05/24, 09:19 PM
what exactly are your "core muscles". I have seen this word sometimes and dont know what it means.

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Lumina20
Lumina20
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2002/05/25, 02:46 PM
Here is a wild guess...I think they are your abdominal and back muscles.
jbennett
jbennett
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2002/05/26, 01:01 PM
Your core muscles are your big muscles: chest, legs, etc. They call these the core muscles because these are the ones that need to be developed no matter what else you do. Its kind of like the core classes in high school or college; these are the ones that you have to take. Many of the isolation exercises are just extras. Using that analogy, you can consider concentration curls as kind of an elective.

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