TRAIN THE RIGHT WAY

 

    The human body does not work by using just one single muscle or joint at a given time.  Your body only works as a whole unit or system.  Consider it one huge muscle.  It works best when trained that way.  Training your body any other way (single muscle groups or single joint at a time) will eventually create imbalances, put unnatural stress on body parts, and will not functionally prepare you for the demands of life.

      A body building style of training (training individual muscles or body parts separate from others) is by far the world's most popular form of training.  But, even when a body building routine is done, each muscle that you think is being isolated is actually not working alone.

 

     Let use the bicep dumbell curl as our example.  You are holding a dumbell in each hand that weigh exactly the same.  Right away your body is tensed and stressed.  Your body is at work from your feet all the way up to your neck.  You are working out your entire body and just don't know it.  This is without performing one single curl so far.  Now, as you begin curling your left arm, more things start happening.  You begin driving your left foot into the ground creating force through your body that will transfer into the movement.  Your body is even more tensed with your core working to keep you stable and balanced through the movement.  Your neck, traps and shoulders are very much activated.  And of course, every part of your left arm (from your fingers right to the tendons in you upper arm connecting to your shoulder muscles) is working. 

 

     So how should we as humans workout you ask?  As functional as possible.  This means doing natural and realistic movements or work.  We need to run, push, pull, throw, carry, change directions, and move so that we are physically prepared for anything.

     We need to be balanced on our training and our goal should bee to be as fit as we can possibly be.  By working towards being FITTER,  all our other goals (weight loss, more strength, more endurance, flexibility, feeling better about ourselves, etc...) will be easier to achieve.

 

 

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