Why PROPER FORM is so important for MUSCLE GAINS!

Make sure you’re doing every exercise right and unlock faster gains!

they say that practice makes perfect but I can tell you in the wait room the old saying is only perfect practice makes [Music] perfect what’s up guys Jeff Cavalier athleen x. com when it comes to weight training only perfect practice makes perfect when you’re trying to get better at a lift or when you’re trying to actually become a more efficient athlete form is everything why is that because of something that we call motor ingrams okay now you can see right here again with my inadequate drawing skills we’ve got the Angel and the devil because there are two very distinct sides to this right here and what we’re talking about is neuromuscular when we train in the weight room when we do anything out in a competitive field we’re using not just our muscles but our brains as well because the connectivity of our brains through our nervous system to our muscles to get them to fire properly it’s like having a great computer system with crappy software you’re not going to be able to run it properly right it’s not going to work to its most capability so what we want to do is have the complete picture and an athl X I always try to reinforce to you guys training for the complete picture so let me outline a couple scenarios for you to underscore why this is so important why attention to form is so important what a motor Ingram is is a story movement pattern so it helps us to become more neuromuscularly efficient when we need to tap into that and the in at whatever time so let’s take a an athletic move and then let’s take a move in the weight room first an athletic move like the golf swing in order to execute a golf swing if our brain had to perform every individual step it would become very inefficient timec consuming and probably not very fun to play the game because think about what we have to do just to grip the club we have to extend our arms okay meaning firing the triceps to a certain degree too much tension bad too little tension not good so it has to have a certain play on the on the the contraction of the triceps to extend the elbow the fingers individually have to flex okay we can’t just say Flex the grip or create a grip that’s an Ingram we want to be able to you know the brain is basically saying you need to flex the pinky Flex the uh ring finger Flex the middle finger right again apply the right pressure too much pressure too little pressure okay all these things again we haven’t got to the takeaway yet if your brain had to think about every single individual step every time you went to go grip and swing a club it’d be pretty inefficient so what our brain does is it hard wires patterns okay this hardwired pattern means golf swing when I stand over a golf ball basically I tap into this in room and say do this give me the golf swing and all those pieces happen instantly right you know it it can it’s all coordinated matter of fact you have a pretty stable swing for you guys that play golf yes it’s going to Veer off track often if you play golf like I do you realize that it’s not always easy but the pattern the swing always pretty much looks the same in a wait room when you go to grip a bar okay you’re gripping the same thing we tell ourselves grip the bar the grip is all of those individual components I just went through on the golf swing of gripping the club but it happens instantly because the stored motor pattern so this is good when you can tap into a welldefined efficient Ingram so that when I go to the GF swing or let’s say I’m a quarterback and I have to get rid of the ball quickly I know that I can rely on that without having to Think Through each and every step of the movement that’s good that’s over here it’s bad when you have flaws in your movement pattern because ingrams are not always perfect and when you’re in the weight room and you’re training this is the Crux of this video here guys we want to make sure that you’re listening when you’re in the weight room in your training you can have poorly programmed ingrams so if you’re getting ready to do the squat and you have never activated your glutes or you have never learned how to sit into your hip flexors like I actually you know told you in some of these earlier videos your stored movement pattern is a flawed one okay what you’re going to do is rely on the Ingram which says squat okay but your squat may be rif with imbalance rif with disproportionate knee and hip flexion things that are going to lead to injuries things are going to lead to you just further ingraining bad movement patterns things that will compromise your strength in the long run so what am I saying here you want to make sure that when you’re practicing with whatever lift it is if you’re practicing your squats if you’re a new person in the weight room you know all guys remember we all were there the first time you you got underneath of a bench press bar that thing was going all over the place right why because you had never developed an Ingram or a pattern for that bench press when you’re new or when you’re starting out a new exercise we like to throw a lot of new exercises at you here in athlean X when you’re doing them learn the proper form try to become aware of your motor pattern try to become aware of glute activity when you’re when you’re doing any typee of functional lower body movement pattern because I can guarantee you you’ve got some Amnesia going on there in your glutes and it’s going to compromise your ability to do the lift guys if you haven’t already if you want to try to start training the right way as I said exercises on paper are just exercises when you perform them right they become a training program that’s what we have at athlet next. com I try to train you guys like athletes so you can start looking like them performing better than you ever have before you can grab the program over at aex. com in the meantime start paying real good attention to what you’re doing in the weight room to what you’re doing out on the field so that when you’re practicing those movements you’re getting them right cuz that’s the only time it’s going to matter all right guys I’ll be back here in a couple days mean time let me know thumb up down below or comment what types of things are automatic for you and what types of things do you still struggle with because some of the things you still struggle with I’m sure I can probably cover in videos ahead I’ll talk to you guys soon [Music] he