Do you need a strength exercise for every muscle?

This is a video that takes a look at a common myth surrounding strength training that you need a specific exercise for every muscle to get stronger. We have covered this topic a few times previously in other videos relating to isolation training and blaming a single muscle that you can reference in the article in the link below

https://www.noregretspt.com.au/index.php/resources/blog/43-2014/323-why-you-cannot-blame-a-single-muscle-for-a-movement-problem

In this video I look at several key movement patterns to show you just how many muscles are used within an integrated movement. We look at the deadlift, push-ups, woodchop, chin-ups, single leg stance and the walking lunge. Each one of these exercises are part of the key movement patterns used in daily living. The only one we missed was the squat. You can see more detail on each one of these movement patterns by going to the article in the link below

https://www.noregretspt.com.au/index.php/resources/blog/43-2014/255-best-ways-to-restore-enhance-functional-movement-for-life-or-sports

Isolated exercises like bicep curls and tricep extensions are not necessary if you are completing integrated movements like chin-ups and push-ups as you will already be developing strength in these small muscles.

One of the first things taught to anyone working with people to improve movement whether you are a health practitioner, personal trainer, or strength coach is the human anatomy based upon the muscle's origin and insertion model. This is essential to understand on a basic level where muscles are and what their simple function is. This places our attention on the function of muscles as pulling of the insertion to the origin and is very easy to comprehend and apply exercise strategies to improve this.What is more difficult to understand is the role of several other muscles working further from the moving limb/s and how opposing muscles can work in contraction at the same time. This is where the understanding of the slings and fascia combining multiple joints and muscles together is not taught as often and as a result not common knowledge.

Whenever we perform an isolated exercise we are employing a muscle action that is against the function of the nervous system and a pattern that we would never use. This does not necessarily mean it is "bad", for there may be a specific purpose for doing this, it just means it is against how our brain coordinates movement using what is known as motor programs. It is also unlikely to change the movement causing pain if the fault within the movement is not addressed.

I love the quote below to sum up isolated training.

"Patterns are groups of singular movements linked in the brain like a single chunk of information. This chunk essentially resembles a mental motor program, the software that controls movement patterns. A pattern represents multiple single movements used together for a specific function. Storage of a pattern creates efficiency and reduces processing time in the brain, much as a computer stores multiple documents of related content in one file to better organize and manage information." - Gray Cook.Now I don't say that all isolated training is bad. Sometimes there is a purpose for it as with rehabilitation but in terms of a person with no injury or pain they are not necessary.

Other great articles to read on this concept are shown in the links below
https://www.noregretspt.com.au/index.php/resources/blog/43-2014/168-why-isolated-strength-training-fails-and-movement-skills-succeeds

https://www.noregretspt.com.au/index.php/resources/blog/43-2014/230-how-to-become-stronger-when-you-challenge-your-nervous-system-with-movement

https://www.noregretspt.com.au/index.php/resources/blog/43-2014/246-stability-training-what-is-it-really-why-is-it-so-important

And for the ultimate resource on functional training make sure you grab a copy of our Little Black Book of Training Secrets from our website by going to the link below
https://shop.noregretspt.com.au/au/Little-Black-Book-of-Training-Secrets-eBook/p/76769

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