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Correcting lifting technique when you are training alone
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While lifting anything like a package or older toddler, you can injure your back or can cause strains to your muscles which surround them. Even your shoulder and arms might go injured depending upon the weight you lift. Similar is the case with lifting weights in your personal or regular gyms. Any incorrect weight lifting can lead you serious injuries to your shoulders and arms, leading even some serious injury to your back. Hence it’s imperative to avoid such kind of trivial or major mistakes, whether joining any Gym in your area or making your own at home. Two common mistakes people tend to commit while lifting weights. Firstly, they can be overestimating their strength while considering whether to lift the weight alone. And secondly, which is quiet often seen is to bend at the waist to pick anything up off the floor. Let’s discuss the correcting lifting techniques if you choose to train yourself alone:
· While lifting any weight, make sure you know the exact technique of doing it. Better consult an expert or search over the internet
· Find out the way you learn the best about learning to perform the techniques correctly. Whether by seeing, hearing or feeling the information, which method suits you the best? This will help you to follow the best avenue which will be a natural way of learning for you.
· Hearing: Use something called Power Talking. This means you invest around a minute talking to yourself before every set through the lifts. You can further explore the idea from the book ‘Dinosaur Training’, and even over the internet.
· Seeing: You can face the mirror on the warm up sets or at the lighter sets, will use the visual feedback and to make the corrections on your own. As lifting weight is Kinesthetic in nature the conventional suggestion is to face away from mirrors during the heavy sets, so that you feel much better. If you do access any mirror, better go for video recording of the techniques you perform. Make sure you shoot from various angles to capture everything properly.
· Feeling (1) – when you lift your weight with your eyes closed: When the visual input goes away, your brain gets more power to process the kinesthetic input. It becomes quite easy for you to understand your body positions.
· Feeling (2) – where you play with different extremes: This can be done for instance – when you squat extending your neck as far as you can (looking over the ceiling), while flexed as much you can (looking at the ground) or try a neutral position (looking straight in the front). This is known as variable training which means for your motor skills improvement. You can further explore this over the internet.
· Post Set Assessment: Once you try all these sets and you still have the feeling of these lifts in your body, time to ask self questions. How more correct way can I do this? Compare the ones who did with the benchmarks you have with yourself and make sure you correct them in your next set.
Final word
Regardless of the reason you chose to have all your sets and weight lifting things at your own, make sure you do it correctly. For this you need to explore the various techniques, master the sets thoroughly and ensure that you do it without any mistake. Make sure you keenly observe yourself be in your mirror or through your video footages and pinpoint out the mistakes and dispel them. You may find the certain wrong way of doing these things right and they may even result you early gains; however, these will have a fatal impact at the end. So make a note all these points and then move on.
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About the author: Amanda is a blogger by profession. She loves to write on technology, wedding and lifestyle. Beside this she is fond of collecting books. She recently bought a book on diet plan to stay healthy. These days she is busy in writing an article on quick recipes for starters for her blog alwaysfoodie.
October 20th, 2011| Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
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