Category Archives: Abdominal Training

Soft Tissue Therapy Canberra

Soft Tissue Therapy is the skilled manipulation of soft tissue for the relief and treatment of muscle soreness and pain; the maintenance of muscle balance and the enhanced rehabilitation from injury. Together with the soft tissue therapy, specific exercise prescription provides the stability and postural control which is evidently lacking in many musculoskeletal conditions. On [...]

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Changes in Deep Abdominal Muscle Thickness During Common Trunk-Strengthening Exercises

I have many people asking me what the best abdominal exercise of them all is. If you have been under my guidance whilst having a lower back injury you will recognise the side bridge exercise. I often thought through my own experimentation, and prescribing the side bridge, that it was an important exercise for the [...]

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Easy Ab exercises for back pain

Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 112-113 Although I think the side bridge is a great abdominal exercise (see the best ab exercise of all), this is an advanced exercise and should only be attempted after the following exercises are mastered. I teach an easy form of Pilates [...]

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