I can not stress enough the importance of your form and technique while working out. If your form or technique is off your exercise is ultimately having an adverse effect on you. To prevent pain and discomfort and further damage of the muscle, bones and joints we have to get back to the basics. We have to review the anatomy of the body, we have to review proper posture and we have to learn proper form when we workout.
I wanted to create this document to just dig a little deeper into understanding the basics of our body. One way to help you increase your awareness and ability to execute exercises is to become familiar with the muscles of your body. Having an awareness of what muscle is working creates a mind body connection. I truly believe this connection is a key component to finding either success or failure. When you are focused and aware of what you are working you are planting seeds into that exercise as opposed to just going through the motions with no awareness, this method plants no seeds. When you plant seeds you reap a harvest. And if you don't plant seeds you can't reap a harvest. That is why I believe it is so important to know some of the major muscles and when you workout no matter how intense , slow, fast or whatever...you pay attention to your muscles and you listen to them and you learn when to contract and which way your body has to move to feel a certain stretch...this awareness allows you to maximize the potential that already exists within you!
Below are some picture of some of our basic muscles. Take some time to look them over and get to know your amazing body!
The other thing I want to talk about for a moment is your posture. I know I talked about it in my video and I wanted to share this picture with you that shows you all the points where you can either have good posture or bad posture. Remember working on correct posture can greatly reduce pain and discomfort, it corrects muscle imbalances,and it makes you look taller and slimmer!
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