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. When I found this out, I was freaked. (What? Fusion of the spine…Yes- Meaning no movement. Ouch!

Given this information, I had to act as quickly as I could to enhance my core, stretch my entire spine and do what I can to maintain optimum wellness.
Here are some of my secret tools revealed..

Training Intensity
Following brief but intense fat burning workouts to keep my entire core and body and strong is the most essential step in maintaining a comprehensive core fitness program. Compound movements and bodyweight exercises as well as these exercises in mini circuts is essential. I use programs like Turbulence Training for my total core fitness. I know for a fact, if someone is struggling to get the results they want, they are probably not doing what I just mentioned. I know this because as soon as I’ve applied the programs in Turbulence Training, there was an amazing turn around in results.
Stretch or Start Stretching!
I’ve personally found that the flexibility component of fitness is one of the most under appreciated component of health and fitness. Many people will never know how good they could feel until they increase their flexibility. Stretching is something most people don’t do or leave a very little time to do it.

I…… HAVE TO DO IT. However, anyone that tries my Instant Flexibility Class usually has an awesome experience. And, if they come back, they quickly begin to feel the benefits of enhanced flexibility and fluid – less restricted movement. That is a hidden secret. I went 6 weeks without training after surgery last year. Because of all the stretching I did, my body kept amazing muscle tone and definition. I would of never thought, yet again I really never stop training for that long unless I have a surgery. I’m glad I was forced not to train but keeping my flexibility program. This showed me a whole new side of results – just through stretching.
Supplement Your Immunity – Especially Now!
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 still  have chronic pain throughout my body,  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.

If you have comments or ideas of what to add to make the Amazing Core Secrets Blog better, please feel free to comment below!

God Bless,

Christopher Mazzella

The Teeter Hang ups inversion is awesome!! I have owned mine for seven years! This is an amazing tool for my back pain. I have AS (ankolsing spondlylitis) which produces tremendous pain, stiffness and discomfort. I also suffered 7 herniated disks from a car accident  which only added to the pain.  I don’t know what I would do without this. This is the inversion table I own.

Here is a link for a comparison. You usually get what you pay for so the mid priced ones work great. Click here for more Inversion Tables.

I get on the Teeter Hang Ups Inversion table, I get tremendous relief. There is nothing like it. I really feel the decompression of my spine and I can move better afterward.

Less pain is one thing I enjoy, but there are many other benefits to inversion. Clients often tell me about yoga inversion for the anti-aging benefits, if they ever try this, I think they would buy it! I hope this finds its way to someone looking for relief from chronic back pain and hip pain.

The same force that used to drag you down is now helping you stretch. Those tired muscles elongate, your vertebrae gently separate and your discs have a little more room to enjoy the body’s healing circulation. Just a few minutes of inversion therapy every day may bring you relief from back and neck discomfort.

And forget about it. I can’t go anywhere without bringing something for SMR (self myofacial release) like a ball or foam roller especially. I have had many white ones and they smush, without holding up for two long. Finally, I found these and they last! If you travel short distances or long, you should bring some kind of tool to help get rid of the knots like a small lacrosse or tennis ball.

I pack a smaller one in a suitcase every time I take a road trip.

Speaking of road trips and traveling, here is a link to a video on how to get rid of the back pain from sitting. I wish I knew how to do this years earlier.

If you have other ideas for Awesome Tools for Back Pain, let me know by commenting below.

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

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.

If you have comments or ideas of what to add to make the Amazing Core Secrets Blog better, please feel free to comment below!

God Bless,

Christopher Mazzella