Findings of EMG analysis

Results achieved so far from EMG analysis at the gym have been truly staggering. What I considered in some cases as good exercises can be exactly the opposite. There are many ideas and myths within the back pain and fitness industry that are truly shocking. The garbage and new fads constantly coming through in magazines of better training machines and ways of doing exercises is a major misdirection - the problem is that the level of marketing is so good it makes these concepts so believable and like a one solution will fix all.

Exercise is a science, what is right for one individual will highly likely not be correct for the next person. The problem is that the human body is so durable that you can perform an incorrect form of exercise for several years before the damage is done. Similar to smoking, some people can do it for a short time and develop problems and others can seem to smoke for decades and have minimal side effects.

No doubt you will have seen someone hooked up to the EMG and observed the various exercises analysed. EMG is amazing for finding what activity is the cause of a back problem or which muscles are causing excessive compression on the spine.

My belief is that the environment we grow up in with factors such as; do we live in a house with stairs, is the section we live on hilly or flat, are we left or right handed, sports or hobbies we have played, and our genetics will all greatly impact the muscle imbalances we develop and the impact those imbalances have on our musculoskeletal systems.

The best piece of advice I could give anyone now is to start changing how you do all daily activities. i.e. Put your shirt and jackets on with the other arm first, walk up and downstairs leading with the opposite leg, the more activities you can do differently daily the better off your musculoskeletal system will be.

Regards Rowan