Why Is Core Strength Important For Older Adults?<\/p>\n
\u201cFor older adults, a strong core helps prevent falls, supports proper posture, and facilitates the safe performance of daily activities such as standing, walking, and climbing stairs,\u201d said Vesagas.<\/p>\n
Brandon said that the term core may colloquially only apply to abdominal muscles, but it actually refers to all the deep muscle units of the \u201ctrunk\u201d or torso like the pelvic floor, the deep spine muscles, and the lateral trunk muscles as well.<\/p>\n
She explained that while generally these muscles are on all the time, as we get older, these muscles are less likely to be engaged due to limited mobility and less time spent standing, kneeling, or getting in and out of a variety of positions.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany people don\u2019t realize they have to choose exercises that focus on these muscles \u2015 their typical workout doesn\u2019t target these muscle groups enough,\u201d Brandon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why Is Core Strength Important For Older Adults? \u201cFor older adults, a strong core helps prevent falls, supports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[589,163,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-218674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}