The study on retaining balance during front bridge motion

Abstract

Recently, “core training” is getting popular to enhance stability in the various sports scene and improve posture in the dairy life. It has been said that “core training” is important to strengthen the outer/ inner muscles of a body trunk. In order to improve the good stability and right posture through the “core training”, the inner muscle strengthening becomes essential and a front bridge workout is especially effective to strengthen the inner muscles of body trunk. However, it is assumed that influence of posture with different contact positions of arms and feet on inner muscle activity in front bridge workout. The purpose of this study is to quantify the relationship between activities of inner muscles (i.e. internal and external abdominal oblique muscle) and support positions in front bridge workout effectiveness based on kinetic and kinematic experimental results. Furthermore, front bridge workout is also discussed under barefoot and shod condition in terms of effectiveness of the inner muscle strengthening.