How to Train Your Core to Prevent Injury

It's easy to say that your core is strong enough, until that day when you feel a telltale "sproing" and are put out of commission. This protocol is the missing element in your big lifts!When I was in my 20s, I bought into the idea that all you needed to do to train your abs was squat, deadlift, and press heavy. I was wrong.
My first back injury—a sacroiliac-joint injury—occurred in 1999, a couple of months before my wedding. (That was awesome.) My second was in 2002, shortly after my