Objectives: To objectively evaluate the relationship between core stability and athletic performance measures in male collegiate athletes. Background: The relationship between core stability and athletic performance has yet to be quantified in the available literature. The current literature does not demonstrate whether or not core strength relates to functional performance. Questions remain regarding the most important components of core stability, the role of sport specificity, and the measurement of core stability in relation to athletic performance. Methods: A sample of 30 volunteer student athletes from Jamia Millia Islamia provided informed consent. Participants performed two tests: single arm raising experimental (core stability test) and a backward overhead medicine ball throw (power performance). Each participants performed tests in randomized order. Results: Correlations between the core stability test and performance test was determined using Karl’s Pearson correlation coefficient. Medicine ball throw positively correlated to the core stability test (r =0.71, p=0.023). Coefficient correlation minutely changed in between top and bottom performers. Gender was the most strongly correlated variable to core strength, males with a mean measurement of double leg lowering of 47.43 degrees compared to females having a mean of 54.75 degrees. Conclusions: There appears to be a strong link between a motor control of core stabilizers and athletic performance tests. Performance test used in study needed precise timing of core muscles so that explosive power created in legs and core can be efficiently transferred to the throwing arm. More research is needed to determine if there are specific sub-categories of athletic performance (other than power) which can correlate with motor control of core. However, future studies should seek to correlate more tests of athletic performance with motor control of core stabilizers. 

Keywords: Core stability; BOMB-throw; Performance; Power.