I hate making things so much more complicated than they have to be. While science is terrific, many often use it solely to make their systems sound more advanced than they actually are. For some time I believed one concept was pretty well founded in both research and application, that would be rotational power.
Why concern ourselves with rotational development? If we look at most sporting actions they require proper rotational development. Even at some subtle levels, it is rotational strength and power that determine success in activities such as punching, throwing, swinging baseball bats, hockey sticks, golf clubs, throwing kicks, balls, and a host of other movements. Without it success at most sports would be greatly hampered.
However, even if you don't play a sport rotational power is very important. The most common way to injure the low back is to bend over and twist. This places the greatest stress on the disks of the low back. Yet, this tends to be a very common position in every day activities. So, it would be naive of us to neglect training this component. The idea of avoiding such things only makes us more prone to getting injured when we actually do it in real life.
As our mantra goes, "real life fitness", we want you to be able to be dominant in your sport, or enjoy the sport of life. Incorporating some of these movements will take you a long way to enhancing your rotational power.
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