https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/core-exercises-and-balance Changes to this claim in Matteo Campagna's evidence registry: its status, its year-by-year history, revisions of the page. en-gb https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/core-exercises-and-balanceThree studies have trained archers' trunks and then measured their balance, and two point the way the claim does. In twenty Korean high-school archers, twelve weeks of Pilates take the dynamic balance score from 38.6 to 47.5, while those who carry on with shooting alone go from 38.3 to 39.2; in twelve young Malaysian archers, eight weeks of core stability work reduce body sway on the force plate compared with the control group. Both, though, have figures that do not add up: in the first, some test statistics exceed the maximum the test used can produce, and in the second, sway falls by almost 90 per cent in four weeks and the unit of measurement is never given. Nor is the gain uniform: in the Korean study static balance, measured as the split of weight between the feet, does not move, and two of the eight directions stay where they were. The third study runs against the claim: in fifteen sedentary adults on their first traditional archery course, adding seven weeks of stabilisation work does not improve single-leg balance more than the course alone, and the only significant progress appears in those who were only shooting. The groups hold six to ten people, none has a control group doing different work of the same commitment, and none reports what happens to the score: the studies on archers point in different directions, and none carries enough weight to settle the matter.claim:core-equilibrio-arcieri:revision:2026-08-22:2Sat, 22 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/core-exercises-and-balanceclaim:core-equilibrio-arcieri:new_claim:2026-08-18:contestatoTue, 18 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT