Complete Muscles | Prioritize Weaknesses | Correct Posture

Complete Muscular Development

You need an un-wavering mind set to work out your entire body; and the entire muscle.   Balance within a muscle or a muscle group is a pre-requisite to overall muscular balance. Complete development creates full muscle bellies and allows for a fully proportional body of muscles.  You achieve complete muscle development through variety and focus.

Variety – Constantly vary your workouts and what you use. Your body will adapt to the same planes of motion and resistance. Use cables, dumbbells, keep switching the grip, hand position, etc.   Every muscle we have has fibers that run on different planes.  If you take the chest, it starts on the sternum and attaches below the shoulder; so you have fibers that run across, down, and that sweep around.  If you continually work at different planes, you work the entire muscle. 

Muscle Function – Most people go through the motions of lifting. By focusing on muscle function, you are effectively isolating and targeting the muscle.  Muscle function is the understanding of what a muscle or group of muscles do when contracted (line of pull). This focus helps work the entire muscle and forces you to lift the weight, not throw. 

Essential Exercise Tips for Complete Muscle Development

Chest – Over extenuate elevating your chest and expanding the rib cage during presses
Back – Arch your back and initiate each motion by squeezing your shoulder blades down and in
Lower Back –Yoga is perfect for improving the flexibility and strength of the lower back
Quadriceps – Contract and tense your Quads before you Squat
Glutes/Hamstrings –Squeeze your Glutes and Hamstrings during straight leg deadlifts
Abdominals – When performing Sit Ups, keep your abs tight on the way back
Deltoids – Don’t bring the weight together over your head while pressing
Traps – Bend slightly forward while performing shrugs
Triceps – During pushdowns, extend your arms to the floor in front, not to your thighs
Biceps – During bicep curls, keep your chest high and shoulders down
Calves – Over exaggerate full stretch to full contraction while performing any calf raise

To achieve Muscular Balance, follow the 3 Balance Principles:
Complete Muscles, Prioritize Weaknesses and Correct Posture