No, it’s not about kegels, or sex or anything like that. My new article on Return of Kings is about the importance of core development. Your abdominals, obliques, lower back, and, yes, the hips, are all of the utmost importance for real practical strength and ability.

Yes, gentle reader, you have read the article title correctly. But bear in mind that this is not another of my several articles on human sexuality, and how you can bang like a champ. I think I have been quite instructive in that regard.

No, when I say that the thrust is a must, I use it in a purely non-sexual context. I use it to refer one of the fundamental links in the chain of your physical well being, a  chain of muscles that is used in essentially all sports and most actions in your daily life. Those are the muscles of your core and hips…

…A lot of physical trainers, athletes, and sports broadcasting talking heads will talk about “the core” in only the vaguest of terms, leaving the uninitiated to the conclusion that it is some mythical muscle in the center of the body. That same uninitiated person will likely be confused about how to train this illusory muscle in his torso.

The core (or rather, the torso) contains an enormous amount of muscles, but the ones that are colloquially thought of as  “the core” consist of…

…Of course, there’s the aesthetic benefits of having a defined abdomen, obliques, and the lean “V-Tapered” hips that the women love. But as it is a common tenet of the ‘sphere that only a whore trains purely to look good to the opposite sex, we will eschew that—although training the core in the way you will learn here will indeed make you look good.

Instead, analyzing the benefits of core training will reveal many ways that a strong torso will bring “Great honor upon your house”…

Read it here