NOT ALL WORKOUT TECHNIQUES ARE FOR EVERYBODY OR EVERY "BODY"

I see so many people rotating from one trendy workout technique to another. Bored with the one they go to, and buying the commercial pitch of reinventing magically your body, we expose our bodies to the most risky injuries, based on the not only poor on nonexistente knowledge about body mechanics, but a training that in 5 hours you can teach a group class.
    Our responsibility is to choose wisely. This means, know your body and own what is your base training.
 for example,
    if you are a runner or you like high impact techniques, or free weight training/body builder, with time your movements will be and look rigid and short, controlled,  find a technique that integrates everypart of your body, will give a slower rhythm to connect with yourself, will give you back the flow and grace in your body; be careful with yoga, as the twisting and weight on joint will be far from beneficial to you, find a stretching technique that is more mild and do not include twisting.
     If you are a dancer, yogaist, swimmer or gymnast, avoid high impact techniques, like martial arts, kickboxing, running, boxing, ect, as that body and joints cannot handle and have not been trained in a way to support the impact, besides the permanent shortening of the muscles and tightening of the ligaments.
   If you are overweight is also a risk for high impact workouts, you can get cardio without over-stressing your joints,
   If you love a sport that produces body asymmetries, baseball, golf, tennis, soccer, volleyball, hockey, be mindful of finding a technique that will compensate and correct the disbalance. If you don't, you are perpetuing strong spasms and hypertension in the opposite group muscle or side of your body, buying a sure ticket for arthritis and multiple pains in the future.
    What ever sport and workout technique gives the opportunity to feel your own power and enjoyment, you have to stick with it. That is the only way to make a progress, jumping around from one workout to the other will not only give you more frustration of not amping your fitness level, but you are taking risks at injuring yourself. in the same line, look for how that selection affects your body as a whole,  look for another one to compensate what its missing.
    if you have any question or want advise, contact me, ill be happy to help you.

LAURA PERALTA, BC-DMT
www.fusionmstudio.com
www.21stcenturypilates.com

IF IT LOOKS WEIRD, IS BECAUSE IT IS,

IF IT LOOKS WEIRD, IS BECAUSE IT IS,
responding to the post at  http://networkedblogs.com/sR9Vb a discussion a bout HOW different trendy workout techniques can WRECK YOUR BODY, by Walts Fritz
I have encounter the same situation  more than may times, i have been a dance teacher for 30 years, have tried and injured myself with every new trend, even though my body is resilient, ignorance and commercialism in a new workout technique can produce the most unthinkable injuries.
I created my own conditioning system based in all the errors that others did, including and excluding many movements and stretches, that took me to create 21st CENTURY PILATES from almost 2 decades of working basically with injury recovery from the traditional pilates technique, reformers, free weight practices, ect.
this past Saturday, for the 3rd time in different YOGA classes, I injured my Terris Minor doing a inverted plank position, with an amazing teacher, the best of all, I must say, so that excluded my suspicion about the professionalism and care of the person in charge, it is a technique that is ignorant about body mechanics. Trying to heal, my chiropractor, that treats 100s of injuries from yoga, we agreed in that my judgment fail, “if it looks weird, is because it is”.

I will add, in total fairness and unbiased, that not every technique is for everybody and every "body", follow the next article.
Laura Peralta, BC-DMT
www.fusionmstudio.com  www.21stcenturypilates.com