No overhead
lifting – Dangerous for the shoulder
No squatting
or lunging with the knee past the toe – Dangerous for the knee
Keep your
spine neutral – Dangerous for the spine
Draw in to
activate TA – Protect the spine
And on and
on ad nauseum. These are rules that made to be broken. When you follow rules
like this the assumption is that the body lives, works and plays in a phone booth.
These rules are artificial rules that don’t work. We live, work and play in a proprioceptively
demanding environment that is ever changing. We are not robots; we are human
problem solving and self organizing beings with amazing ability to adapt. We
must give the body credit for the wisdom it possesses. Think connect and link
to improve the quality of movement. Movement is rhythmic and dance like, not
segmented and robotic. The rule I live by is to harmonize not roboticize.
Tim
Vern is Honda a sponsor of the GAIN network? First the element and now the asimo. I’m trying to organize my thoughts with this theory.
My understanding is if you keep bending it like a credit card or hotel card eventually it will break or law of repetitive motion… to this rule only applies to a small amount of the training program, when heavy superficial external loads are place on the body… to this is another way of saying isolate them out.
Jonathan
Dr. Stuart McGill stated in one of his lectures that the spine was like a clothes hanger, if you keep bending it, it will eventually break.
Tom Ceccato
Vern, in regards to knees over toes, and a loaded un-natural spine, I agree that outside the gym, athletes are subjected to these postional and postural demands. However in training, where do you draw the line between re-inforcing correct movement and activaton patterns for injury prevention, whilst keeping the movements event/athlete specific; such as tennis player’s knees over toes, or a rugby prop in a compromised spinal position during a scrum?
Also- when are you coming back out to Australia?