Strength training – Are you trying
to build muscle and getting no-where?
As
Felicity explains, it’s not what you do, it’s how you do it!
Technique- do not let your ego dictate how much you
lift. Striving to get a personal best is one thing, but just paying attention
to the numbers and no attention to form is a recipe for disaster. That’s an
injury that WILL happen.
Whenever you are training for strength and conditioning, always
try to understand what is that you’re trying to achieve by a particular
movement. Your body is a system of levers.
The job of a muscle is to make the angle of a joint smaller – ie. pull
two bones together. Therefore the object of an exercise on the weights floor is
not so much to do with moving the dumbbell or barbell as it is about closing
that gap between the bones.
See in the illustration below how the angle of the
elbow joint lessens in a bicep curl- the forearm bones and the upper arm bones
are pulled together by the muscle.
The upper arm remains static and the forearm moves to
complete the action.
Too many people think strength training is all about moving
the weight and forget that it is about contracting the muscle. This leads to
the mindset of getting the weigh from point A to point B any way they can and
using every muscle possible and momentum to assist. These are the people who
are prone to injury and never seem to change their body shape. This is just one
of our articles on strength and conditioning – stay tuned for more
By Felicity Neale
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