Why do we still blame a single muscle in a movement like a squat or lunge when there are multiple muscles and joints all involved that could easily disrupt the timing and positioning of the body?
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Without a doubt the best change I ever made in my training career was understanding that it is impossible to blame, or credit, a single muscle for movement function.
We hear this all the time, "you need to fire your glutes", "your hamstrings are tight", "you have a weak VMO" or, "you have a weak core", the list of muscle blaming is endless where we one single muscle is made totally responsible for an injury or poor movement function.
The problem with this assumption is that muscles perform multiple roles all within a split second to create movements like walking, running or even standing up out of a chair. Some muscles are more concerned with stability and deceleration, while others are focused on locomotion and acceleration and all of this happens in a blink of an eye. While it may appear for a certain muscle to be weak or tight, addressing it individually ignores how this muscle is truly used and the interaction it has with its synergistic partners. It also ignores the reason of WHY it is weak or tight in the first place!
The reason I changed my thinking with exercise many years ago was my method of looking at individual muscles did not work! I helped some people but there were many that did not improve or became worse from this approach. This article I am going to explain what led me to find a better way to train and where we are now able to help many people with complex injuries and problems that previously we could not.
Whenever we perform an isolated exercise we are employing a muscle action that is against the function of the nervous system and a pattern that we would never use. This does not necessarily mean it is "bad", for there may be a specific purpose for doing this, it just means it is against how our brain coordinates movement using what is known as motor programs. It is also unlikely to change the movement causing pain if the fault within the movement is not addressed.
Gray Cook says it best.
"Patterns are groups of singular movements linked in the brain like a single chunk of information. This chunk essentially resembles a mental motor program, the software that controls movement patterns. A pattern represents multiple single movements used together for a specific function. Storage of a pattern creates efficiency and reduces processing time in the brain, much as a computer stores multiple documents of related content in one file to better organize and manage information." - Gray Cook.
Great articles to read with tons of information about the true reasons for weakness are below
Stability Is All About Timing
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Using The Myofascial Slings
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Movement Not Muscle
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