Strength Training

Strength and power are necessary to excel in all fields of play. The athletes that take the time to do this properly will be the ones who come out on top. In today’s athletic world, we are all aware that improving our strength will enhance our performance if done appropriately.

How many of us get our strength training knowledge from someone who got their knowledge from someone who got their knowledge from someone who did something well in the past and we mimicked that? Confused? Many programs continue to get passed down from generation to generation and a huge “gym science” emerges and we all follow suit because someone else received gains from this. How many of those who received the gains were naturally gifted individuals and no matter what they did, they will improve and succeed? How many times do we seek out a trainer who looks like what we want to achieve and then ask them what they did and then try to follow that program?

There are strength programs that are geared for specific things and sports and may not provide the best for you and your sport. When you perform weight or resistance traininig, do you take the time to understand what is happening inside of your body? Following the rules of a lift, may not follow the rules of your body. If you don’t follow the rules of your body while performing these lifts, you can decrease your body’s ability to perform at its highest level. It may not happen right away, but if you continue, you will find a time where this may be true.

The mechanics of our bodies and the way it responds to forces are the rules we all need to follow. Getting the right program that keeps this in mind will give you the ability to excel your performance throughout your career and life.

When you are working out with resistance training, how do you know the muscles you intend to work are actually working? Are you improving your body’s ability to perform a specific motion or are you enhancing a compensation pattern you have already created?

These questions are important to know the answers to in order to keep moving towards excellence and optimal performance. Our body is great and finding a way to get from point A to point B and we have an amazing network of systems in our body that will keep us moving even when something is not working. In order to achieve optimal performance, it is beneficial to have everything working in our body as efficiently as we can.

Muscles in our body are under stress every day. We intentionally place them under stress so they respond to increased forces in order to perform a particular movement better. Are you sure that this stress is not causing somethings to lose their ability to perform properly? Muscles may lose their ability to function appropriately at all times under some stresses. When this happens, we fall into compensation patterns. When we need this particular muscle to respond instantaneously, it may not be able to do so and now undue stress gets placed elsewhere on our body causing possible damage.

A tool that has been able to find these muscles that are not performing properly is called Muscle Activation Techniques. This tool is one that is designed to locate the “weak” link and put it back in the game. It decreases the body’s compensations and is designed to return it to ideal mechanics. This enables you to continue to enhance your performance and continue to excel. This tool is difficult to describe at times as everyone wants to compare it to something else which it can not. The best way for someone to get a better understanding is to experience it. Several athletes come to get this type of treatment and have received amazing results. Athletes continue to improve upon their personal bests at all levels from youth, to high school, college, Olympians, to professionals.