BG-10: Sometimes I Cringe
If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you know how I feel about the seated exercise machines. While they can provide some benefit – for the right individuals, I don’t feel that they are the best option for the majority of fitness center members. HOWEVER, if you don’t know how to use the pulleys or the free weights, I’ll give you a pass to use those machines, but ONLY temporarily, because exercise safety is of the upmost importance.
I love the fact that so many more people have taken a personal interest in their health. It doesn’t matter to me if you are trying to boost your sex appeal to get more likes from your beach photos or if it is to be more healthy so that you can lower your healthcare costs. It really doesn’t matter.
What does matter, however, is that when you are in the gym, that you are exercising using good mechanics. No one wants their photo likes to go from, ‘I’m on the beach and I’m sexy’ to, ‘Pray for me, I’m in the hospital’.
What I DO care about, however, is that people learn to move correctly, even if it means less weight initially, plus, I prefer quality over quantity.
Motion, movement, performance and mobility is what I love and it’s what I do. It is a beautiful thing. Sometimes I cringe, however, when I see someone in the gym swinging their back so much as they try to do arm curls with 100 pound dumbbells in each hand, or when I see someone unfolding themselves as they try to leg press (ya know, the machine that I HATE!) with hundreds of pounds on each side.
Exercise should never look like a spinal disc is about to slip out of someone’s spinal column, through their skin and onto the floor.
Like I said, sometimes I say something. Sometimes I say nothing. But sometimes I walk past them as they are exercising and drop one of my business cards by their cell phone and towel. Okay, I may not actually do that, but you get the picture of how important mechanics are when it comes to any type of bodily movement, whether in the gym, exercising or at home picking up a newborn.
The idea of going to the gym and exercising is so that you can become stronger, move more efficiently, and live a healthier lifestyle with fewer aches, pains and injuries.
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