One of the foundations of 3D Functional Training is the fact that muscles are attached to bones in spiral and diagonal patterns – not in straight lines.
All muscles have some function in all three planes and all joints have some motion in all three planes.
Also, the motor cortex of your brain recruits muscles in groups (or “synergies”) to produce motion, not as individual muscles.
The traditional training methods and exercises that you’re probably using were heavily influenced by bodybuilders.
The whole point of bodybuilding, however, is not necessarily to enhance the way muscles work, but simply to make certain superficial muscles as large as possible.
I say “certain superficial muscles” because bodybuilders typically ignore smaller muscles like the sartorius or the lower trapezius although they’re easy to see in the mirror.
And bodybuilders are certainly not concerned with deeper muscles like the multifidus or transversus abdominis.
Too bad that weakness of these two muscles is highly correlated with chronic low back pain.
That’s a prime example of muscles that a successful bodybuilder can easily ignore but may be of vital importance to you (whether you realize it or not.)
Just because you may not have heard of a muscle and it doesn’t have a machine named after it doesn’t mean it’s not important to keeping you pain-free and injury-free.
Besides, the first thing that many of you say to a trainer is, “I don’t want to look like a bodybuilder.”
So why are you training using only bodybuilding exercises?
There’s a better way …
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