{"id":50568,"date":"2019-05-02T10:59:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T08:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/happy-or-less-fortunate-choice\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T14:31:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:31:57","slug":"happy-or-less-fortunate-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/happy-or-less-fortunate-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy or less fortunate choice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The synonym for the word happy could be correct, and if we\nwanted to find a synonym for the word less happy, it could be incorrect.\nBut with today’s information, research or studies, it is really difficult to name something\nin the issue related to exercise that something is right or wrong.\n That is why it has worked for me to name things or phenomena based on these\nfacts in a more correct way for me. And the inspiration for my few\nlines? He lives literally all around me and so it was now. I came across\nan interesting observation that prompted me to\nmove the idea forward. <\/p>\n\n

As the name suggests, it will be a kind of selection. Choosing an exercise that is\nspecifically aimed at exercising our core of the body, our “core”. Even before\nwe get to the exercise itself, it would be good to reveal a few\nlittle things about how it all works. A common phenomenon when exercising the core of the body among\nexercisers is that if the exercise does not induce a proper burning sensation on the abdominal muscles,\n it is not a good exercise, a good workout. But it doesn’t always have to be about burning!\nIt would be good to realize that the training of our core should serve to\n sufficiently develop the muscles in the area of the center of the body,\n which should serve as a junction, for the transfer of kinetic energy (force)\n that is produced from the lower area and spreads upwards, or\nvice versa, from the upper area downwards. All this should happen without\noverloading our axial-support system, the spine, which should always be in\nits natural, anteroposterior curvature, so as not\nto overload any of its segments. If we are going to talk\nabout movements, especially if we are talking about dynamic movements, we should\nnot overlook this fact and we should keep it in mind continuously. And this\nbrings me to an exercise that I see practiced very often, and that is the “Russian\ntwist”, or in our way “Russian twist”. Simply put, we are sitting on the\nground, the lower limbs are bent in the foreleg and we are trying\n to “toss” from side to side a medicine ball, disc or kettlebell held in\nour hands. It is during these exercises that we very often see rotated movements,\n the division of movements in individual sectors of our body and the overall lack\nof stabilization of the torso. Another fact that arises on the basis of\nthese overexposed movements are the torsional forces that act on the intervertebral discs. The\nmore often our intervertebral discs are exposed to such\nnegative forces, the more likely it is that sooner or later we\nget a problem in the form of bulging or herniation of the intervertebral discs. Not to\nmention other degenerative changes in the vertebrae. All this is intensified even\nmore when we realize that these exercises are included in various high-intensity\nworkouts, when there is\na rapid alternation of exercises and fatigue not only muscle, but especially fatigue of the central nervous\nsystem results in really weak to almost no motor control over\nthe exercise. Just to do the exercise under any circumstances. So fatigue and lack\nof motor control, in a word, ignorance, can lead to really serious\nproblems. <\/p>\n\n

Another kinesiological fact that\ncould be food for thought is the mobility of our spine. And since there is rotation during\nthe exercise, we will talk about it.\nThe rotation on our spine is greatest in the cervical area, it is somewhere\naround 65\u00b0, in the thoracic area the rotation is more limited,\nit is around 30\u00b0\n and in the lumbar area it is really very small to almost non-existent, up to a maximum\nof 10\u00b0. And now, with a little imagination,\n imagine what values you can get to during the exercise? Not to mention that in\nany movement we perform,\nit should come from our hips. So our pelvis should be an integral part of\nour spine, our torso, and this does not happen in this exercise. I’m\nnot saying that rotation should be suppressed in our lives, even eliminated, no\n! On the contrary, our movement takes place in the natural rotability of the\npelvis to the torso, but all this should happen in a controlled manner and not beyond the boundaries\nof anatomical and kinesiological principles. <\/p>\n\n

In conclusion, I would like to point out once again that in my post I did not mean\nto forbid you to perform certain exercise rituals.\nI just wanted to bring you a few interesting things that could make you\nthink a little bit about how it can actually work.\nAnd maybe direct you to what could be a kind\nof happier alternative to the mentioned exercise for you, for your body…<\/p>\n\n