What The Corrective Exercise Santa Cruz CA Really Means

By Donna Wood


Getting to middle age rings alarm bells for all of us. The forty, fiftieth and sixtieth birthdays arrive unbelievably fast. We all wonder where the years have gone! We wonder too, why the firm well-shaped body has degenerated into a sagging abdomen, skin that stretching to the limits from overweight, and joints that complain whenever we get out of bed in the morning. But you dont need to worry anymore, the corrective exercise Santa Cruz CA is designed to take care of your needs.

Most clients that turn up for this extermination tend to have a biomechanical imbalance. That is, quite simply, that our bodies do not move exactly how they should. Poor posture, tight muscles, misaligned hips, the list goes on, so how do we know if we are doing an exercise correctly? Well, it's very simple, when you are training a muscle group, ask yourself, is that muscle group working the hardest when you are doing the exercise and are the support muscles secondary in the movement.

The best way to get rid of your gut is by doing sit-ups. Sit ups work by exercising your abdominal muscles which then get stronger and hold your gut in place. This will also give you that stellar abdomen that you have been dreaming about and lessen the weight on your spine.

Typically, posture correcting exercises are exercises that are designed to strengthen your core. Your core are the muscles that hold your spine in place. This means that you need to constantly keep your spine muscles in shape and keep them strong.

We all start to slow down as we age, but we do have control over how much physical activity we do. While certainly our muscles slow as we age, they will improve with regular exercise. This extends older peoples abilities to look after themselves in their own home for a longer period. It will increase balance and diminish the chance of falls.

What exercises to do I believe, depends on the individual, as in all things we are all different, with different capabilities. I like swimming after taking it up two years ago after an absence of 40 years from exercising. Swimming is gentle on the body, and best of all you do not have to be able swim.

When you are doing and exercise concentrate on activating the muscles that you intend to work and play around with your positioning until you find what works for you. If you are doing a chest press, your shoulders are taking the strain and you are in what would traditionally be the correct position, it's not the correct position for you so change it until you find what works, and work towards correct technique.

The same goes for a bench press. It's a very simple exercise in practice but very different in reality. The chest can be difficult to activate when attempting a barbell bench press. Arms, back, shoulders can all be used in this exercise leaving the chest the last muscle to activate. In some cases, I have had to put my clients in some quite unusual positions in order to get them to 'feel' their chest activating and then move into correct alignment gradually. As a result, I get much better results and eventually get my clients moving in the right way.




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