Is Your Exercise Helping or Hurting?

I've returned to Haywards Heath from the Muscle Activation Technique course with my head full to bursting point yet again!

Pretty much all of the 25 or so fitness professionals on the course agreed it was one of the best courses they have done. There was quite a varied bunch, from personal trainers and pilates teachers, to physiotherapists.

So many courses these days are about the personality and the agenda they have to promote. We were lucky to have a fantastic instructor and it's refreshing when there is no ego involved, and it's all about improving understanding with the science that back's up the MAT approach.

What does this mean for me and my personal training clients? Well MAT is all about having a system of checks so that exercises and their effects on the body can be continually assessed. Doing this course again reinforced just how vital this is for truly effective and healthful training to take place.

Without such a system in place - and a way to effectively correct any imbalances found - personal trainers are at best guessing if what they are doing is leading someone in the right direction.

I see far too many people that seem to suffer through their exercise during my week. They are doing things just because they have got into some habits, and these habits don't seem to be producing good results. Many people train through issues rather than getting them addressed effectively.

Don't stand for this anymore! Find a way to get your body properly strong and able to handle what you require of it. Find a way to allow your muscles to do the jobs they are meant to be able to do.

Muscle Activation Techniques are one such way that i would highly recommend after over 10 years as a fitness instructor and personal trainer.

In just the last 3 days i have seen it achieve some amazing results with the other people on the course.

Just how much better could your body be feeling and performing?

Keep an open but questioning mind in your own approach to your training and your health. Every so often you will likely come across information that completely turns what you thought you knew on its head!

If this comes from a reliable source, that is then backed up by evidence and experience, then watch out, you may have just found a tool to radically enhance what you do!

Steve Cork