On 10/5/00, Tonio Agius<[log in to unmask]> writes:
<< The road to achieving this may be long and the regime relatively boring but
the ultimate result of TA / Pelvic Floor / Buttock / Oblique muscle tone
preventing back pain is well worth a try..... >>
***Has anyone successfully applied these methods to train those whose task it
is to lift the heaviest possible loads in sport, namely weightlifters and
powerlifters? Some folk have suggested that experienced lifters do not
need that sort of training because they must have acquired optimal patterns
of recruiting TA and other trunk muscles via all their usual training. If
that is true, that supports my original remarks that all those isolation
techniques for spinal stabilisation may be redundant if one simply learns the
correct way of lifting.
Since "the body knows only of movement, not muscles", the acquisition of
efficient lifting skills in weightlifting seems to achieve quite naturally
what all of those tedious TA , multifidus, muscle X regimes try to achieve
over a longer period. Is this contention correct or is there some
compelling evidence which shows that the muscle isolation approaches offer a
superior form of stabilising the trunk and reducing the incidence of lumbar
pain and disability?
Dr Mel C Siff
Denver, USA
http://www.egroups.com/group/supertraining
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