Balance Training

Hello G Force Home Training members and associates,

This month we are focusing our approach to educate you on the importance of creating balance in your physical program.

Just like in life, it is important to create balance in our body through our exercise routines. Muscles move limbs through a shortening action. When a muscle contracts it shortens, or pulls on the limb to create movement. These muscles need to be in synergy with each other in terms of strength, flexibility and range of motion, in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

When we exercise and produce strength in one area, this area will have a greater tendency to pull or shorten. When the Antagonist, or opposing muscle, is weaker it will allow this tendency and the body will then become imbalanced and out of alignment. These muscular imbalances can weaken the core, and eventually lead to faulty movement patterns. These faulty movement patterns over time can expose themselves as injury and pain.

Each body has a different genetic outline and carries a different physical and mental lifestyle. We need to exercise accordingly, ensuring that there is balance in our program as well.
Every exercise program should include the entire body with no neglecting or less emphasis on any small or large muscle group. This understanding during your routine will prevent muscle compensation, (this is when one muscle is physically compensating for a weaker muscle.) Muscle compensation will lead to injury and aching weak muscles in a period of time.
Balancing out all the muscle groups of the body will also result in added Lean Body Mass (LBM). The more LBM your body produces the more calories you are naturally burning thorough out your daily lifestyle.

An example of balance in your routine would be to focus equally on the Antagonist as much as the agonist. The agonist is the working muscle and the antagonist is the opposite to the working muscle. If you were to train your biceps (agonist), you then must equally focus on your triceps (antagonist).

Proper Stretching is equally important to the strength training aspect of your routine. In order for the muscles to become and stay in healthy alignment they need to be evenly stretched out for balanced flexibility