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This is one of my friends and clients. After following his diet very well and lifting hard for about a year this is where we got to!

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In my first BloogE, which is more sophisticated than a blog, we talked about previous injuries and identifying them when you are considering starting a training regimen. In this BloogE, we are going to discuss how to do everyday life correctly… What does that mean? Well, many injuries occur not necessarily while lifting but rather start in the most simple of tasks that we preform throughout the day I.e. walking, going up and down stairs, sitting down, or bending over to grab something. On average, people walk around 3,000-4,000 steps a day and people bend forwards over a 1,000 times a day. Take 4,000 steps and 1,000 forward bends a day and you have 6,000 reps!!! Imagine lifting and doing 6,000 reps of a lift wrong, even if it’s an easy lift. 6,000 incorrect movements a day add up to a large chance of injury.
So let's get to the point; take your walking posture for example. Do you walk with your toes pointed in towards the midline of your body? This causes an over use of the quad and adductor and an underuse of the glute, hamstring, and abductor. Your glute and muscles near the hip are the stabilizer for the knee; so how is the knee going to be stabilized if the quad is pushing you forward as you walk instead of the hamstring and glute pulling you forwards?
Do you have lordosis (a more pronounced curve in the lower back) or an exaggerated Kyphosis (too much forward bend in the thoracic (upper) spine)? These two signs of poor posture can lead to a slew of problems when just walking or sitting! Irritated nerve root, budging disk, loss of cartilage, reference pain, nerve entrapment, difficulty getting a full breath... like I said, bad news bears.
How do you fix these problems? Get a trainer who knows what he is talking about.
If you have been walking, sitting, or squatting with poor posture for 40 years it’s going to be a matter of reps done correctly before you can overcome a lifetime of bad habits. Like anything, if you are motivated enough and are persistent, you will overcome bad habits.
Food for thought, try standing up as tall and straight as possible. Squeeze your glutes and tuck your hips so they are directly under your legs. You want your hips neutral and not too far into lordosis (butt sticking out backwards), yet not too far into kyphosis, (where your hips are in too far causing your back to round like a cat stretching). Now that your hips are stable, straighten your upper back so you are as tall as possible. Tuck your chin, so you are looking directly forwards, not up or down. Take 10 deep breaths, starting in your lower stomach, filling your lungs completely. Practice this every time you are walking until it is natural, it will help…

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Getting into lifting? Training? Changing eating habits? Whatever you wish to start consider this analogy first. Would you ever just start computer coding and expect to be successful? Would you pick up your computer and build the next Google search engine? Of course not, this takes years of experience, training, trial and error etc. The complexity of computer programming is similar to the body. Don’t believe me? The body has over 7 trillion nerves, 4,000 tendons, 900 ligaments, 600 muscles, which all add up to a lot of ways to injure yourself. One of the number 1 reasons that people stop lifting is that they experience an injury within the first 3 months of training.
Consider before starting a training regiment
What injuries have you had in your life? Try to think of all of them, from a fall off a bike, to an old sports injury, a damaged hamstring from a slip on ice. Try also to think about aches and pains, do your feet commonly hurt after walking a few miles, or do your traps bug you after a day of work, or do your knees hurt squatting down?
After thinking of all your past injuries (even the ones you don’t think relevant) consider all the ways your body compensated for that injury. For example, a high right ankle sprain, or a fractured right tibia, when one leg is immobilized the other leg takes a majority of the burden while, say, walking. So your left leg is developing larger stronger abductors, adductors, glute, calf, hamstring, quad, and transverse core or serape system, while the right side is swollen and atrophies.
So what do you do with this little tid bit of knowledge? Well when you start training you would do well to keep this in mind by lifting accordingly because muscle imbalances put you at a much greater chance for injury!!!
Some simple solutions, try single leg and single arm lifts like lunges or single arm pushups. Start with the non-dominant or previously injured side of the body and count your reps. This way you will ensure that you are not doing more with the stronger side of your body and amplifying your imbalance. Furthermore, using one arm or one leg to perform a lift will activate the serape system which is responsible for the body moving as a unit and protecting the spine along with supporting proper form for almost every lift known.

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One of our clients went on a business trip this last weekend. He decided he didn't want to miss his workout... So opened his phone up and got on zoom and did a workout right in his hotel room!!! When your as dedicated as Chad is you need E-xercise! We will train you wherever and with whatever you have or don't have with you!

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