Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Same Flower, But This Time-- A Bee!



One of the best reasons to have a trainer is that good trainers pay attention to form.  When we work out, we are hot and sweaty.  We get tired and our brains get fuzzy.  Having someone else there to notice that it’s time to shift to a lighter weight so we don’t make weird body compensations or to suggest that our knees will be happier in the long term if we can manage to keep them in line with our toes can make the difference between progress and injury.

Yes, we can tune into those things ourselves.  Yes, we can use a mirror or an observant friend for help.  Yes, we want to build our own proprioception.

But it’s easier with a trained eye on us.  We may not know or notice that we habitually hold our heads slightly tilted to the right, or that our left hip tends to hike up more often than our right one.

Try it out.  It could be fun and useful!

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