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Movement is life, as the saying goes, and it is 100% true. Movement and exercise has been proven to greatly increase life expectancy, decrease depression, be the greatest single way to lose fat and build muscle, as well as increase quality of life. However, how we move is as important as that we move. Repetitive motions that are outside of the normal and natural range of motion will end up damaging the body over time. Lack of proper maintenance on the machine will also lead to degeneration and decay. While adding physical stress or load to the body can make it stronger it can also break the body. Putting it all together can be tricky but regardless if we dont move we start falling apart.

When we work out to develop more musculature, it is important that we pair this with the chemical pillar to properly regenerate and heal. However, it is also critical that we primarily ensure that the motion we are doing is in line with the way the body moves. Very often people will do exercises that are not in line with their overall goals because they did them in high school or because someone else, with different goals is doing them. Designing an exercise routine specific to your goal set is very important to getting you where you want to go and not damaging the body unnecessarily.

It is impossible to build muscle without putting stress on the muscle. The amount of stress a muscle can handle, and grow is different than the type of stress a ligament, a tendon, or the joint can safely deal with. Very often we see large setbacks due to damage to a tendon that should never have happened. Movement speed is also of primary concern when developing an exercise program. What you need the muscle for is important, if you need to move fast you train differently than if you need to look a certain way or if you want to generate large amounts of force.

Sitting in a static position is also a form of exercise, called isotonic, isometric exercise. This is a very important thing to remember as sitting causes lots of issues with how the body works and greatly increases degenerative damage. Very often resetting your work space environment will help off load the issues on the body. Changing head tilt and arm positioning can eliminate and prevent headaches, shoulder pain, jaw pain, disc issues, and energy issues.

Its important to desgin workouts to ensure long range bodily function. There are lots of exercises you can do now that will improve balance, coordination, and function and help keep these functions as you get older. If you want a body you can live a long life with you need to train for that, it doesnt just happen.

Women are in fact not the same as men. Their Q angle of their pelvis and hip is roughly 30% larger than a man's hip. This means that forces on the hip and knee are higher in women than men. This one issue is suspected to be why female athletes blow their knees out 10 X more than men do. Keeping the knees and core healthy is a big part of using your body as you age.

Your muscles have 2 things, they have strength and they have tone. Strength is how hard the muscle can pull at any given time. Tone is how hard the muscle pulls all the time. Tone can become out of balance and create significant problems. Plantar fasciitis, carpal tunnel, frozen shoulder, scoliosis, are all examples of tone issues. Tone is set neurologically by use and dominated by fore brain for extensors and hind brain for flexors. If you start to develop tone issues it will normally be worse in the morning due to neurological effects during sleep. Resetting and monitoring tone is important for function but also for pain reduction.