Effective spinal bracing requires cylindric muscular control and separation of breath from brace.

“So you want to be able to flex the musculature in a cylindric fashion, so you have control. So if you go back to our very first thing, and with your hands open, and you put 'em right here, and if you're like I can't get activation, if you pay attention to your thumb, right? Now, just move your thumb. And now you see activation back there, fight? - Mm-hmm. - Boom. Now if you can imagine turning that on just a little bit, and now notice how I can do this, by the way, at the same time I'm talking. If you have to go [gasping] we don't have control, right? So you have to be able to separate breath from brace.”