About

Christopher Mazzella

Amazing Core Secrets is brought to you by Christopher Mazzella, a certified personal trainer with over 18 years of hands-on experience teaching core strength classes to groups as well as individuals. Below he shares personal experiences and why he developed The Amazing Core Secrets Blog.

“If you have attempted to increase core strength just buy doing ab exercises or crunches, you’ve been missing the boat!”

“Proper core strength is built by doing multi-planar movements so that these muscles that stabilize the spine and move the body can work together better.”

Since we sit during the day and often sleep curled up, we develop muscle imbalances which “turn off” and decrease our ability to utilize our total core  muscles properly. Doing crunches while lying on your back and pulling on your neck like I normally see in the gym, not only can cause injury, it wastes your time,” says Christopher Mazzella.

I know how it feels to have awesome core strength, and I also know how it feels to have poor core strength and serious back pain. For example, as early as 13 years old I started having lower back pain when playing hockey. I would have patterns of back pain especially after days or weeks of rest. I delt with it for many years if my life but only found it was my core that was weak! I wish the advances of core strength training were around when I played. Experts “kinda” knew since they would say to strengthen your abdominals and it would help the lower back pain. The concept of total core fitness wasn’t mentioned. It could have saved me many years of back pain and stiffness, not to mention it would have improved my game big time.

I’ve been suffering for many years with a genetic back disease called (AS) ankylosing spondylitis. It’s a chronic, inflammatory arthritis and autoimmune disease. It mainly affects joints in the spine and the sacroilium in the pelvis, causing eventual fusion of the spine. Keeping my body moving and strong with a fitness program involving exercises and movements for your total core  like Turbulence Training is essential. I put so much into the maintenance of keeping my body  but also into the flexibility component as well. It hurts me so much not to stretch!

Supplementing my immune system with  Transfer Factor supplementation is vitally important to me for a few reasons. I have  been on Enbrel for about 2 years and it has helped me greatly. Every doctor is amazed at my movement and range of motion. Don’t get me wrong, I hurt m0st of

Core stability exercise- side plank with exercise ball

the time and all over, but now it is livable. What I am most excited about is my ability to stay healthy while on Enbrel. As a child and throughout my life, I had compromised immunity and was always very sick . Since Enbrel works by lowering your immune system, doctors warned me that the Enbrel could lower my resistance as well as keep me open to infection.

Thank God, I take Transfer Factor by 4Life which enables my immune system to be modulated (helps to brings down an overactive immune system as well as BOOSTS a low immune system). In English, I haven’t been seriously sick in two years even though I starting the Enbrel!  Given my previously past low immunity, I definitely owe my now strong immune system to Transfer Factor.

I also practice do my best with sanitary prevention since I’m a personal trainer  and also teach group fitness training. My daily interaction of teaching fitness classes and working with heavily breathing individuals puts me on a crowded battlefield of bacteria and viruses. Besides the hand sanitizers and frequent hand washing, I also use a Transfer Factor Immune Spray and RioVida Burst packets. These have done an amazing job of keeping me healthy while faced with genetic and environmental challenges.

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God Bless,

Christopher Mazzella