Monday 21 September 2015

RECALIBRATING YOUR POSTURE WITH GYM EQUIPMENT? TOTALLY!

HOW TO recalibrate the hips for Posture and Performance before a leg day using your typical gym.
Knowing how to reboot your body before a leg session can be a tricky thing. So today, I decided to write an article on how to get the maximum out of your gym membership using all the tools available there. Here is how to do it without the scientific knowledge.
The recipe you will need: 
- proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation stretching
- a few good yoga poses
- and finally nautilus machines!
First, I would recommend starting up with yoga ( the child's pose). This pose will help you stretch the posterior chain to get rid of excess lordotic posture and facilitate the recalibration of your pelvis.
Second, I would activate the left hamstring and gluteus maximus using the seated leg curl machine with a slight retroversion of the pelvis. ISOMETRIC HOLDS WITH LIGHT WEIGHT!
Third using the abductor and adductor machine, strengthen the left inner thigh and the right outer thigh.
Follow up doing a half kneeling one arm pull with a pulley with a retroversion tilt of the left hip while pulling with the left arm.
Finally all that is left is to stretch using PNF, the muscles that are over compensating any squat pattern.
- stretch the right gluteus maximus
- stretch the right adductor group
- stretch the right sacro iliac ligaments
Also there might be a possibility that the capsule of the left hip may also be tight.
There you have it! Instant performance for kick ass leg day! ENJOY...

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