Correct Muscle Imbalances - Stop Guessing & Start Assessing

muscle imbalances are the main culprits when it comes to injuries. Most injuries occur because there is a significant imbalance between antagonistic (opposite) muscle groups. In order to compete with the best there is a need to balance your whole body. For example, let's say that your pushing muscles (chest, shoulders and triceps) muscles are much stronger and tighter than Pulling (upper-and mid-back) muscles. That means you have a common imbalance between these two muscle groups and you are likely to injure your rotator cuff (shoulder joint injury). So, what do you do? What you need to do is push the stretch muscles and strengthen your muscles prefer to strike a balance between the two muscle groups, the less stress on the shoulder joint leading to a shoulder INJURY FREE.

How do you develop muscle imbalances?

Over time, your body can develop muscular imbalances, which cause serious injuries or decreased performance. Your body develops these imbalances by poor posture, improper training, remuneration and from existing injuries. In order to correct and prevent muscle imbalances Optimal Performance Training Center each client /athlete is the "Optimum Performance Profile", which is a thorough assessment and evaluation that tests the structural imbalances, tensions length relationship between muscle groups, and functional movements. The results give us the right information to correct any imbalances in May,.

How do you determine whether you have muscle imbalances?

A key tool we use is the so-called functional movement screen. It is a 7-point test,;

overhead squat

Hurdle Step

In-Line Longe

shoulder mobility,

trunk stability push-up

Active Leg Raise

Rotary Stability-

Each of the above movements has a unique scoring system that measures how efficiently your body moves. Once our Optimal Performance Coach collects the data it before then, a series of exercises proven corrective measures to correct imbalances or restrictions discovered during the evaluation. That is how Optimal Performance Training Center produced such great results ... We use the data from the screens to give us a blue print on what exactly needs to be done to prevent injury to improve the speed, maneuverability and speed increase size, strength and power to develop into a better athlete. Remember, the assessment is an essential part of the creation of individual results with your sports training program. It is, if an assessment or evaluation is completed, that a true individual program can be developed.

 

Jason Zaretzky is Owner and Program Director of Optimal Performance Training Center, a Sports training facility located in Rockland County NY. He specializes in Athletic performance training for athlete ranging from the pee-wee to the professional. To learn more about Jason and Optimal Performance visit http://www.rocklandsportstraining.com.

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