Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

8557.057 - 8581.371 Stuart McGill

So the mother of all proximal stability is your core. In exactly the same way, a heavy equipment operator using a backhoe, the first thing they do is they put down the stabilizers, which are posts that go into the ground and lift the tires off the ground to stabilize the tractor so that now the arm can be the athlete pulling earth. Failure to stabilize, you're just pulling the tractor around.