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Bridge: Core Training, with Joe Drake

by Joe Drake, MS, HKC, NSCA-CPT, USAW
May 2015

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Exercise Technique Program design

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core core training strength and conditioning

Joe Drake, owner of Gravity and Oxygen Fitness, discusses his philosophy on training the core and provides some examples.

This Bridge video demonstrates techniques that are referenced in the article “Core Training: Evidence Translating to Better Performance,” published in Strength and Conditioning Journal in June, 2010. Click link to access article.

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Joe Drake, MS, CSCS, NSCA-CPT

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Joe Drake is co-owner of Gravity + Oxygen Fitness, a successful group and personal training studio in Boca Raton, FL. Drake is also co-owner of the Ax ...

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Audience:
Personal trainers TSAC Facilitators Coaches

Topics:
Exercise Technique Program design

Keywords:
core core training strength and conditioning

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