“Workouts so stressful and damaging to the body and mind (destructive workouts), where concentration and form are sacrificed to achieve a greater immediate benefit or objective, speeding the aging process of every aspect of the body and putting health and well being at risk of immediate and future injury.”™ Hector Sectzer

Strength Training Better Defined

Strength training should be designed to improve your overall health and wellbeing, by creating proper muscle contraction and growth of muscle also known as hypertrophy.

In addition, when properly performed, strength training should promote good joint stability by increasing tendon and ligament toughness.In other words, strength training should promote muscle growth and not destabilize joints and connective tissue.

In other words, strength training should promote muscle growth and not destabilize joints and connective tissue.

Most strength training exercises are built with good intentions of creating functional hypertrophy and proper joint stability. However, it has been repeatedly shown that repetitive pattern overload occurs when weight training exercises are poorly thought out (Destructive workouts).

Repetitive pattern overload occurs when strength training programs fail to address individual joint arthrokinematics and consequently leads to adaptive shortening of muscles and altered joint mechanics. The end result is a dysfunctional body that moves awkwardly.

Care must be taken when choosing the best strength training exercises to negate joint altering effects of pattern overload which if left untreated, can lead to global body dysfunction and debilitating pain

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