Core muscles 'must be strengthened before exercise'
Tuesday 15th February 2011
Overweight adults must strengthen their core muscles before partaking in any exercise, one expert has said.
Alan Gordon, exercise and nutrition consultant, said that the difficulty with obese people exercising is that their core muscles will be weak and this needs to be rectified before any outdoor weight loss exercises can take place.
"You must strengthen before you go out and do power walking and weight loss exercise. You must get your body strong first and this is what's left out quite criminally when people start exercising," he explained.
Meanwhile, research from Imperial College London found that obesity has almost doubled worldwide since 1980.
The study, which was published in the Lancet, looked at all global data available to investigate how levels of body mass index, blood pressure and cholesterol changed between 1980 and 2008.
It was found that in 2008, more than one in ten of the world's adult population was obese, with a higher incidence among women than men.
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