Leveling up your workouts doesn’t always mean running longer distances or doing more squats. Including smart, effective workout tips to get the most out of the moves or workout routines you’re already doing also makes your workout more efficient.
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Therapy: Are You Listening to Your Body?
We see people in physical therapy on a regular basis that get injured when starting well-intentioned workout programs. This is a bit of a paradox for us because injured folks are our lifeblood, but so much of these things can be avoided! The staff at SSOR is committed to helping you help yourself avoid having to come see us, so here’s three avoidable things you might be doing:
Application of Muscular Force
The mechanical action of the levers employed determines the power which the muscle must exert to perform the work. Two factors influence the amount of power which a muscle can supply to its lever: variation in the strength of the pull resulting from different degrees of stretch of the working muscles and the mechanical advantage of the lever. The position of a muscle at contraction affects the strength of the pull of the muscle. The position of greatest pull is one in which the muscle is slightly stretched.
Reasons to Start Bodyweight Training Today
Getting fit doesn’t have to be complicated. Simple bodyweight exercises can be a great choice for achieving gains in strength, flexibility, and overall health. Best of all, they don’t cost a thing and you can usually do them just about anywhere. Still not convinced? We’ve got 13 reasons why bodyweight exercises should be a key component to your workout regime.
Cardiac Muscle and Striated Muscle
Cardiac or heart muscle stands, both structurally and functionally, in an intermediate position relative to the two other varieties of muscle. It is imperfectly striated and branches freely so that there is muscular continuity throughout the atria as one unit and throughout the ventricles as another. In the mammalian heart the atria are separated from the ventricles by a connective-tissue ring. Similar to smooth muscle it is involuntary and contracts rhythmically, irrespective of its extrinsic nerve supply.
Balance and a Rapid Restoration of the Body
Many types of skilled exercise require an accurate sense of balance and a rapid restoration of the body to its normal position when balance has been disturbed. This ability depends on nerve impulses originating in the labyrinth of the inner ear (the otolith organs and the semicircular canals).