Linda Jamieson School of Dance provides high-quality training in ballet, tap, jazz, and other forms of dance for both recreational and pre-professional students. The Linda Jamieson School of Dance helps dancers to execute movements safely and with strength.
Crucial to a dancer's core strength, the abdominal muscles allow for powerful movement and help to protect against injury. This set of muscles includes the rectus abdominis, which has become perhaps the best-known abdominal muscle group for its characteristic “six-pack” appearance. Responsible for facilitating spinal flexion and side bends, it also provides additional core stability in movements that involve the hands, feet, and head.
To the side of the rectus abdominis are the external oblique muscles, which stretch diagonally downward from the lower ribs to the pelvis. These are the muscles that power torso rotation and sideways bends as well as spinal flexion. They are located just above and at a right angle to the corresponding internal oblique muscles, which work in opposition to the external obliques as the torso rotates.
Meanwhile, deeper inside the abdomen, the transversus abdominis wraps around the trunk from the front to the back. It stretches from ribs to pelvis and is not responsible for facilitating movement, but rather for providing the torso with its stability. It also serves to maintain pressure in the abdomen and assists in respiration by adding power to the exhale.
Crucial to a dancer's core strength, the abdominal muscles allow for powerful movement and help to protect against injury. This set of muscles includes the rectus abdominis, which has become perhaps the best-known abdominal muscle group for its characteristic “six-pack” appearance. Responsible for facilitating spinal flexion and side bends, it also provides additional core stability in movements that involve the hands, feet, and head.
To the side of the rectus abdominis are the external oblique muscles, which stretch diagonally downward from the lower ribs to the pelvis. These are the muscles that power torso rotation and sideways bends as well as spinal flexion. They are located just above and at a right angle to the corresponding internal oblique muscles, which work in opposition to the external obliques as the torso rotates.
Meanwhile, deeper inside the abdomen, the transversus abdominis wraps around the trunk from the front to the back. It stretches from ribs to pelvis and is not responsible for facilitating movement, but rather for providing the torso with its stability. It also serves to maintain pressure in the abdomen and assists in respiration by adding power to the exhale.