Sunday, 1 November 2015

HOW TO PREVENT INJURIES IN THE GYM

Tip of the day: I am fortunate to work with a lot of athletes in ten different sports. When I teach my main concerns are always 1-Posture and 2- Proper form. One day,I was teaching a Bent over row to a student when at the same time, I had a football player using a more sport specific form for the same exercise. So he wondered why could he not use the same form? I told him that his position on the field requires him to work in same the pattern (EX. Offensive lineman). So the question is, ''when can you break form?''. I say the most strict of form(neutral spine) should always be used at the beginning. It takes 300 repetitions to learn a movement and retain the pattern. Then you could tweak it to more of a sport specific form. In the end,if you are not pursuing a sport or it is just for pleasure, then just remember that neutral spine in all exercise is the key to injury prevention.



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