Human movement is a dynamic process requiring an integrated, adaptive interplay between stability and mobility. For lack of a more precise term, we can call this process “dynamic stability”. Yet, when we think about the function of the “core” we somehow tend to completely forget about the dynamic aspect of dynamic stability. But as with all other aspects of movement, core stability - and by extension spinal stability - is not a static bracing strategy but a dynamic process. A constant interplay between stability and mobility.
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Breathing, as a subject, tends to be either largely ignored or completely dogmatised. There are dozens of different schools of thought and many would-be experts teaching and preaching all things breath. My position on the topic is fairly much my position on all things physiological: It’s complex, and it’s context dependent. That said, something that is complex from a physiological systems perspective, doesn’t necessarily require a complicated and convoluted approach in practice. Let’s start by looking at the essentials of diaphragmatic breathing.
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