Happy New Year....Resolve to move BETTER in 2011

Taken straight from the MYOFORCE team :)

This weeks blog is not going to be on your typical New Year's Resolution.

AHH sure everyone resolves to eat better and nearly everyone resolves to exercise more in 2011 than they did in 2010.

I am here to tell you that your first resolution should be to move well first before moving often.

Scapular tracking for shoulder health and symmetry

In the sport of Figure, symmetry is EVERYTHING! Being lean brings out imbalances EVEN MORE because there is no fat to cover em up come stage time!

When I first began posing practice for figure the winging in my right scapula was BLATANTLY OBVIOUS.  Posing coaches will tell me to lean to the side or contort myself into some crazy position that felt like SH*T, but hey its all about the symmetry they'd say... beauty takes pain ;)

I am lucky to work alongside one of the greatest corrective exercise guys in the biz :)  He lives, eats breathes this stuff. Alignment, activation and symmetry are his forte.

Here is an awesome exercise that forces your scapula to track properly!

The TRX vs the Versus

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In case you haven't noticed the TRX is EVERYWHERE!  Scroll down to the right side of my blog and you will even see an ad for it!  The TRX has been trying to get out there in the fitness industry for around 7 yrs and now they are making a KILLING!

The MYOFORCE Versus is also a portable suspension trainer, however it has a little something extra!
A pulley!!!
Therefore it forces users to engage even more stabilizers and allows for self and partner resistance all at the same time.

Look for an EMG study in the near future comparing the VERSUS and the TRX ;)

PROOF IS IN THE PICS once again

Nowadays in the fitness industry we are being bombarded with websites, emails and newsletters showcasing weight loss and body transformation via diet and exercise. It’s great I LOVE IT! 

The proof is in the photos, I say this time and time again!

Good maintainable weight loss and body transformations are going to occur over time, not overnight so keeping a photo diary is key.

Have you ever looked deeper into the before and after photos?

Take for instance the awesome Precision Nutrition Program.  Those before and afters are a postural specialists DREAM shots ;)

If you look beyond the weight loss and newly developed muscles you will see that most likely the deviations that appeared at 225lbs are still there when the client drops to a lean and mean 170lbs!

Yes you can transform a body with clean eating and progressive strength training. If you don’t address the structural deviations however, even the leanest strongest client is at risk for pain and or injury!

At my studio MYOFORCE,we get creative. 

We have countless clients with serious deviations; deviations so prominent that traditional strength training just doesn’t make sense.

Take for instance our client Isabel.
Isabel is your typical 13yr old girl. Loves to play soccer, ride her bike and just be active!

She also has a serious case of scoliosis. This left Isabel strapped to her brace 23 hrs a day 7 days a week for YEARS. 

Until she found MYOFORCE   

The following are her brace molds from 2009 and 2010.

Ok so it's a little different than your traditional before and after photos but these brace molds are significantly different :)  Thanks to creative corrective exercise sequencing Isabel is pain free and brace free :)

 A girl after my own heart ;)

Favorite Glute Activation Exercise

FOOD FOR THOUGHT...courtesy of Aaron Brooks

is Your Mirror Trying to Tell You Something?

How many of you have looked at yourself in the mirror and thought my goodness is this what I have become. Many of our clients will say something along the lines that they do not want to end up looking like their 80-year-old mother. Or have to worry about all the health concerns that their parents are going through. My coworker read this article and thought I was being too harsh. Maybe but it is the truth and it is what we hear on a weekly basis so I thought why not tell it the way it is.

Dynamic Lat Lunge