{"id":1372,"date":"2019-04-26T07:42:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T06:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/painpuzzle.co.uk\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2019-04-03T13:45:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T12:45:12","slug":"do-i-need-to-strengthen-my-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/painpuzzle.co.uk\/2019\/04\/do-i-need-to-strengthen-my-core\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I need to strengthen my core?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">At one time we used to think that strengthening the core was the key to improving back pain. In fact, core strengthening exercises are no better than any other exercise. Simply doing exercise improves pain. The main thing is that it is exercise that you enjoy and that you will continue to do regularly.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At one time we used to think that strengthening the core was the key to improving back pain. In fact, core strengthening exercises are no better than any other exercise. Simply doing exercise improves pain. The main thing is that it is exercise that you enjoy and that you will continue to do regularly.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[29,17],"tags":[146,123,55],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/painpuzzle.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/plank-1327256_640.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Do I need to strengthen my core? - Pain Puzzle<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/painpuzzle.co.uk\/2019\/04\/do-i-need-to-strengthen-my-core\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Do I need to strengthen my core? - Pain Puzzle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At one time we used to think that strengthening the core was the key to improving back pain. 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