{"id":977,"date":"2021-05-18T21:10:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T21:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.mutusystem.com\/en-uk\/?p=977"},"modified":"2023-12-15T12:13:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T12:13:19","slug":"how-to-engage-your-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mutusystem.com\/en-uk\/postpartum-exercise\/how-to-engage-your-core\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Engage Your Core"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2018How to Engage your Core\u2019 is probably one of the most commonly instructed cues in fitness, and yet often misunderstood. Many exercisers think it means sucking in your stomach, or holding your breath. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s 9 Top Tips on How To Engage Your Core<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. \u2018Sucking in your stomach\u2019 is not engaging your core<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><br>It\u2019s merely shifting pressure and mass upwards or downwards. If you suck it all in hard and your waist goes narrower (it will for as long as you hold your breath anyway), all the stuff that was hanging out has gone somewhere. Upwards, pushing into your diaphragm, or downwards pushing onto your pelvic floor. Imagine a tube of toothpaste. If you squeeze in the middle\u2026 the contents of the middle of the tube haven\u2019t disappeared, they have moved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sucking in your breath or holding your breath whilst pulling your stomach in hard, is not training muscles. Its shifting pressure and displacing mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mutusystem.com\/en-uk\/join\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/mutusystem.com\/en-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Ad-packshot-orange-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mutusystem.com\/en-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Ad-packshot-orange-1024x384.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mutusystem.com\/en-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Ad-packshot-orange-500x188.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mutusystem.com\/en-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Ad-packshot-orange-768x288.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mutusystem.com\/en-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Ad-packshot-orange.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. \u2018How to engage your core\u2019 Step by step!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"How to Engage your Core. With MUTU System Founder, Wendy Powell\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7ITkZLNAbrY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">TL; DR: Watch how to engage your core with MUTU System Founder and Mama-in-chief Wendy Powell.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You exhale, GENTLY drawing your belly button back at the same time as gently drawing your pelvic floor upwards. Your abs are drawing gently inwards, but not pulling in hard. Both transverse abdominis and pelvic floor are part of your core, and they work together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Making an \u2018Ssssss\u2019 sound as you exhale may help you find the right deep abdominal muscles. For the pelvic floor part\u2026 imagine you\u2019re sucking a smoothie with your vagina as the straw\u2026 or picking up a grape with your vagina\u2026 weird. But it works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inhale as you relax the muscles, engage again on the next exhale. So you\u2019re working the muscles on the exhale, relaxing on the inhale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you watch side on in a mirror, this shows as a very slight movement of the lower abs \u2013 not a big one. The spine is neutral, your chest should not thrust \u2013 so lower ribs stay back, stacked directly over ASIS (the hip bone bits that stick out at the front), stacked over the pubic bone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You don\u2019t hold your breath. Your shoulders don\u2019t tense and very importantly, your tailbone or backside doesn\u2019t tuck underneath you. When you isolate your TVA muscle and engage it, you should not see movement anywhere else in your body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try lying on your back, on all fours, sitting or standing, but the same indicators apply \u2013 your spine should be in neutral alignment: lower ribs over ASIS, ASIS on the same vertical plane over the pubic bone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If your butt tucks under, if you suck it all in, hold your breath, thrust, tense or hunch anything else\u2026 that\u2019s not isolating your TVA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Correct <a href=\"https:\/\/mutusystem.com\/en-uk\/alignment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">alignment i<\/a>s VITAL to making this work and is explained in detail in our programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. How do you know if you\u2019re engaging your core correctly?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Place your hands on your \u2018hip bones\u2019 \u2013 the bits that jut out at the front of your pelvis on each side). Move your fingers slightly inwards and downwards from there, where it is soft. When you engage your TVA, you will feel a tensing of the broad flat muscle under the pads of your fingers. If your stomach pooches or pushes outwards, if you\u2019re holding your breath or anything is pushing away, then you\u2019re working the outer abdominal muscles and TVA isn\u2019t doing its thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mutusystem.com\/join\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/mutusystem.com\/en-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Ad-Back-pain-testimonial-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2394\" style=\"width:768px;height:288px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mutusystem.com\/en-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Ad-Back-pain-testimonial-1024x384.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mutusystem.com\/en-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Ad-Back-pain-testimonial-500x188.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mutusystem.com\/en-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Ad-Back-pain-testimonial-768x288.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mutusystem.com\/en-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Ad-Back-pain-testimonial.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. \u2018I can feel something happening in my pelvic floor muscles\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>GOOD! The TVA is part of your core system of muscles, as are your pelvic floor muscles. When you draw TVA inwards, the pelvic floor should also lift. Remember, to really work your pelvic floor muscles, it\u2019s a deep lift up inside, not a little lateral squeeze at the front. Imagine drawing up the walls of your vagina and back passage (try them separately, and together\u2026 undercarriage acrobatics) as if you\u2019re picking up a small grape and pulling it up inside you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the ideal TVA contraction = exhale, draw the belly button gently back to the spine, draw the pelvic floor gently up. Pelvis doesn\u2019t move. No tucking, hunching, thrusting or breath holding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. Isolating the Transverse Abdominis muscle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a necessary first stage of achieving a functioning core because you need to reconnect with it if you\u2019re going to work with it. But it is only the first stage. You don\u2019t have to carry on doing TVA isolation exercises for ever. Just find your core. Then reconnect the brain to the muscle and make it work right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But to really work, to really function, the TVA is only one part (a very important part, but one part all the same) of your core system of muscles. These include your diaphragm, pelvic floor and the multifidus of your spine. Your stabilizing muscles that are utterly vital to your body working right. You find them, you figure out how to make them work on their own, then you teach the whole system to work every time you move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6. How to engage your core &#8211; controlling intra abdominal pressure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Intra Abdominal Pressure is why your stomach muscles push out, why you get diastasis recti, hernia, prolapse and a tummy you don\u2019t like. You need to reverse this pressure to get a tummy that looks and feels like you want it to, for the long term. This is about alignment and learning to use your entire core system right\u2026. you have to address the cause, not just the symptoms<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mutusystem.com\/join\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/mutusystem.com\/en-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Ad-Diastasis-testimonial-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"Ad Diastasis testimonial\" class=\"wp-image-2397\" style=\"width:768px;height:288px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mutusystem.com\/en-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Ad-Diastasis-testimonial-1024x384.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mutusystem.com\/en-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Ad-Diastasis-testimonial-500x188.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mutusystem.com\/en-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Ad-Diastasis-testimonial-768x288.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mutusystem.com\/en-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Ad-Diastasis-testimonial.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">7. You\u2019ve got to find it before you can strengthen it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you haven\u2019t found, reconnected with and learnt to engage and use your entire core system of muscles from these foundations, no Pilates class, boot camp, binding tight things around your waist or any other abdominal exercise is going to get you a flat stomach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">8. Now I have found it, should I \u2018engage\u2019 it the whole time?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>No! The core muscular system\u2019s function is to stabilise your body without you consciously contracting it every time. You need to connect, to isolate, in order to find and retrain it \u2013 you do NOT have to hold it in the whole time. You definitely don\u2019t suck it in hard (see no.1). Hypertonic muscles are too tight \u2013 weak and tight. A constantly contracted muscle is absolutely not a strong one. So let your abs go! You need to untuck your backside and allow your pelvic floor and abdominal muscles to work through their full range of movement, to help your body find it\u2019s neutral, optimally functional alignment \u2013 and to do this the relaxing and stretching parts are every bit as important as the contracting part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">9.\u2019But I still don\u2019t have a flat stomach!\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s because there is fat sitting on top of your muscles my Lovely. The fat you carry on your waistline (and everywhere else \u2013 its the same stuff) is determined by the food you do or don\u2019t choose to eat, by your hormones and by your activity levels. Stomach exercises (even the right ones) won\u2019t give you a flat stomach you can see if a layer of fat is obliterating the view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to engage your core &#8211; is actually about a lot more than your core &#8211; A holistic approach<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This is why MUTU System programme works. They teach you how to find the right muscles, how to reconnect with them on an emotional as well as the physiological level (the latter won\u2019t work without the former, and many mothers have lost the former), make them work, and then make the whole system work every time you move. MUTU teaches you how to reverse the pressure causing the problem through correct alignment, without which no ab exercises will work long term. It teaches you how to eat the right foods and balance your hormones to lose the fat that sits on top. MUTU System fills in all the gaps, all the missing links in why the regime or exercises or methods you have tried before, may not have flattened your tummy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018How to Engage your Core\u2019 is probably one of the most commonly instructed cues in fitness, and yet often misunderstood. Many exercisers think it means sucking in your stomach, or holding your breath. 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