September 1
How To Strengthen Your TorsoOne of the most missed muscles during workouts at the gym are your obliques, important for oblique exercises. These muscles enable you to bend backwards, sideways, and to rotate your torso. Since we don’t do a lot of backward bends during the day, these muscles mostly work as stabilizers to support our lower back as we sit and walk or run. These stabilizers are working isometrically in all of the exercises that require you to maintain neutral spinal alignment. Back extension exercises are the best way to challenge the erector spinae muscles to work as primary movers .
The latissimus dorsi muscles have been covered in the section related to back muscles. Because they actively playa role in stabilizing the core, they bear mentioning again in the core training section. The lats wrap around the mid to lower back. When we engage our lats, it helps to stabilize our torso and maintain good posture.


