Muscles That Don’t Work (how to fix them)
One of the most important concepts that I emphasize when
teaching my STRENGTHOLOGY 101 Students how to
design superior training programs is the importance of
training the nervous system.
You see, muscles that don’t grow are usually muscles that
don’t work.
The reason why they don’t work is because the athlete has
what is called “a faulty recruitment pattern”… basically their
nervous system has a glitch in it.
This glitch, that causes your nervous system to “by pass”
certain muscle when performing a movement, can be the
result of an old injury, bad posture habits and even emotional
imbalances.
Either way, the faulty recruitment pattern causes certain
muscles not to work even when they normally should.
These faulty recruitment patterns eventually create what
I call a muscle virus, because it creates imbalances in the
structure and function of the athlete.
The best way to fix one of these faulty recruitment patterns,
after a thorough assessment, is to…
#1. Stretch the muscle OPPOSITE or antagonistic to the one
that is not working.
#2. Strengthen the non-working muscle with isolation exercises.
#3. Re-Teach the movement pattern with the newly recruited
muscles in its proper form.
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If I may add another technique to the list above for activating inefficient muscles?
In my Kinesiology studies we learned that you can de-activate reactive muscle first, then re-activate the dysfunctioning muscle whilst its reactive partner is offline.
The process of finding the strong/dominating reacting muscle is a little harder to describe, but it will nearly always be either in the same kinetic chain, closely related or nearby, or its antagonist pair. You can always see this over reacting muscle activating when the one you want to activate is trying to be used. It’s a bit like being a muscle detective…
To de-activate a muscle you can either stretch it powerfully but slowly, stretch out the golgi tendon organs or compress/shorten the muscle spindles (there are others also). Then go onto do whatever you want to do to activate the previously dysfunctional muscle.
I use this technique to great effect with PT clients, but also find that those who come back with the old reactivity pattern being repeated need to deal with some sort of emotional issue (not hard to do, and nearly always something small) before the pattern will go permanently.
My 2c
George
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