https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/core-training-and-score 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-training-and-scoreTrunk work goes with better scores, but the chain from the exercise to the arrow has been closed by a single study, and not cleanly. The direct measurements on archers are mostly associations taken once: in fifty young Malaysian archers, sit-ups in one minute are among the few fitness tests linked to the score, and in twenty-three university club archers the plank hold explains about seven per cent of the variation in scores at 18 metres. Four studies have trained the trunk and then counted the points, and none of them does it cleanly. Two have no control group: for thirty-six children only p values are published, and for twelve teenagers the t values differ between the abstract and the table. A randomised trial on twelve adolescents claims an effect on the score without publishing a single value for it. The last is a randomised trial on thirty national-level archers, where only the group doing Pilates together with balance work pulls away from the control group, but it started twelve points below the others, and against balance work alone the difference does not hold. On the other side, in eighteen young recurve archers none of the three core tests is linked to the score, and several programmes that train the trunk in archers improve the trunk without measuring a single arrow: in one, the plank goes from 78.5 to 102.3 seconds and the arrows are not among the outcomes. A hint of mechanism remains, since in elite archers the string-side multifidus is more active on exactly the ten-scoring arrows and transversus abdominis activation rises with level, but a comparison between levels does not show that training it raises the score.claim:core-punteggio:revision:2026-08-08:2Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/core-training-and-score#storiaThe supporting evidence grows and stays fragile. A systematic review counts four core, Pilates and balance programmes, all significant on accuracy, balance or reduced sway; the strongest is the 2024 Pilates trial, which the review describes as better than balance work alone too, whereas in the original article's table that comparison does not hold. In the same year a controlled trial shows that the core responds to training, with the plank going from 78.5 to 102.3 seconds, but does not link that gain to the score.claim:core-punteggio:history_entry:2026-06-11:2026Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/core-training-and-score#storiaThe picture gets messier, and at the same time the first randomised trial to count arrows arrives. In eighteen young recurve archers none of the three core measures, sit-ups, plank and superman, is linked to the score, and a wall squat and plank programme on sixteen regional squad archers raises the test values without measuring a single arrow. In thirty national-level archers, by contrast, six weeks of Pilates combined with balance work take the twelve-arrow score from 96.1 to 103.3, and only this group pulls away from the control group; but it started about twelve points below the other two, against balance work alone the difference does not hold, and the core is trained there together with balance. It is supporting evidence on archers, not clean enough to lift the status beyond reported.claim:core-punteggio:history_entry:2026-06-11:2024Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/core-training-and-score#storiaA second association in the same direction: in twenty-three university club archers the plank hold, 269 seconds on average, is associated with the score at 18 metres with a coefficient of 0.266, about seven per cent of the variation. The same study shows, though, that almost all the effect of build and aerobic fitness on the score runs directly rather than through the core. In the same year a plank circuit on twelve archers, with no control group, reports better accuracy at 40 metres, with t values that differ between the abstract and the table. Two one-off associations and an uncontrolled before-and-after study do not amount to corroborated.claim:core-punteggio:history_entry:2026-06-11:2023Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/core-training-and-score#storiaA review of twenty-one studies brings the gap into focus: trunk programmes improve trunk balance, strength and endurance, but the step through to sporting performance is not demonstrated, and none of the studies it gathers is an intervention in archery. It counts as context rather than as a contrary study on archers. In the same year thirteen Indonesian archers show a correlation of 0.903 between sit-ups and score, but the journal is questionable and a correlation that high on thirteen people settles nothing: the status does not change.claim:core-punteggio:history_entry:2026-06-11:2022Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/core-training-and-score#storiaThe first randomised core stability programme on archers, twelve teenagers aged 13 to 18 over eight weeks, reduces body sway and claims an effect on the score of six arrows at 50 metres too, but publishes not a single value for that score. An effect claimed without figures cannot be weighed, so it stays as context, and the question about the score still has no result that can be read.claim:core-punteggio:history_entry:2026-06-11:2017Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/core-training-and-scoreclaim:core-punteggio:new_claim:2026-02-05:riportatoThu, 05 Feb 2026 08:00:00 GMT