How to avoid Injury
When it comes to exercising, the quality of the technique is more important than quantity. While good technique can produce quality results, improper technique can do some serious harm to your body. In addition, improper technique will not give you the results that you are looking to obtain from such exercise.
Where do I begin? Beginners should expect to devote time to learning proper form. Even the more experienced can benefit from some occasional form feedback. Thankfully, proper form is something that can be learned. Having you coach there to help you is key to ensure good form throughout the exercise.
Improper form is unsafe. The most prominent reason why form matters in a workout is to avoid injury. The spine and muscles surrounding are especially is prone to injury caused by improper form. Bad form can also cause damage to your joints and ligaments. If you lift a bag of salt with improper form, you strain the muscles that aren’t supposed to be working, which can cause flair up or spasms-the body’s natural response. In order to prevent injury to the spine or any part of the body, it’s important to maintain form for any exercise.
How does form help me reach my optimal? You need to have good form when you work out to target the right muscles. If you were to perform the chest press, correct form means that you engage the right combination of arm, shoulder chest, and core muscles. With bad form, you use various other muscles to perform the lift, making it more difficult to work one specific muscle as effectively, decreasing strength significantly.
