A Short Story about Us

The Core Charger belt was invented with the intention of teaching other people how to hold their abdominal muscles in order to properly lift weights, but it became so much more. I learned how to hold my abdominal muscles (now I know this is called abdominal bracing, also associated with Valsalva) from a personal trainer. I had no idea how to brace myself for lifiting until my trainer showed me, and even then it was almost an accident that I learned to do it so quickly. My trainer told me that he tries to teach all his clients this bracing, but most take months to learn it, and some never learn it.

At home during the pandemic, I was lifting weights, and I wondered if I could figure out how to teach people a little more easily than how my trainer taught me. I experimented with different belts and configurations. I found that some configurations did not do anything and some made things worse. I eventually came up with one configuration of the belt that made Abdominal Bracing possible, but I didn't expect it to fix my posture too! I went online to look at what belts were already out there - the answer is there are A LOT of belts out there. I was discouraged, but I decided that I needed a belt for myself anyway, so I might as well buy one. I took another look online, and I realized that there is actually nothing like the Core Charger out there. I tried the belt out on family and friends doing lots of different activities, and the results were amazing.

Before I started wearing the Core Charger, I had no idea that my posture was just "off". I have been in martial arts for decades, and no one ever told me that I needed to straighten my back a little more, tuck my chin in a little more. This is how much we accept poor posture as just a fact of life, but we can change that now.

I want the Core Charger to be available to everyone who can use it to better their lives.

Linton Lee, Co-founder