The danger of repetitive movement exercise is understood by first conceptualizing what happens to the muscles and the skeleton when you work out.
Repetitive Movements which happens from joints , examples include: running, cycling, and the myriad strength-training machines filling every gym and including yoga classes across the country.
In any physical activities, normally deeper muscles keep our body physically stable and superficial muscles should move. Elastic property of muscles is essential as in all these types of repitative movement contraction of muscles is very strong force . Once they become stiffer and harder then their adjustment to cope up with physical activities becomes more and more stressful.
Each of these activities to hold the pose some muscles work, only a few muscles, of the many, crossing joints and hinges. Even golf falls into this category; the literal one-sided nature of this activity is obvious. Over time, as a result of always using the body turned and twisted to one side, there are subtle to gross shifts in the structure which make themselves known as neck, shoulder, arm, SI Joint, low, middle, or upper back, hip, knee, ankle etc…pain. Giving just contour or opposite movement is not an answer at all
But remember that doesn’t mean if you keep doing so many activities with stiffness, the process is the same where your muscular skill does not improve instead it deteriorate.
All our muscular architecture has a relationship with inner soft tissues of organ systems, situated in body cavities are attached to bones and across one or two joints.
Repetitive movements which are from joints and continuous contraction of muscles to make us physically stable and move , they work under load or pressure in the course , they bulks up , becoming shorter , dense and hard, strong but this type of Strength doesn’t help to stabilize our skeleton structure where joints and surrounding tissues get wear and tear fast. In the course, they lose their elastic property which affects inner spaces between bones in the joints and also affects movement of organs situated within.
Hence, we can observe the rounded, well-defined muscles of a bodybuilder. Those shortened, bulked-up, dense muscles now pull the 2 or more bones they connect closer together. Because there is always more than one muscle crossing any given joint, the joint gets compressed, never symmetrically, always asymmetrically.
It’s this asymmetrical compression of the joints and hinges of the skeleton that causes all the ensuing trouble and symptoms of structural aging (distortion and degenaration). This includes, but isn’t limited to: general stiffness and soreness, lack of mobility, diminished performance and harder to move, stress/ strains/ tears in the soft tissue, cartilage deterioration, damage to discs, and all other structural injuries.
Repetitive exercise creates stiffer muscles, but they are only a symptom, tip of the iceberg of the real problem. When the skeleton is pulled out of alignment, out of whack, the quality of movement changes and the options of movement diminishes in kind.
The harder one trains, or works out, the faster this process is speeded along; a wonderful example of a vicious circle, or taking one step forward and two steps backward. This phenomenon can be observed in a runner’s legs. Running is an exercise that over time will twist the legs out of alignment, asymmetrically compressing the feet, ankles, knees, hip joint, and low back for starters with increasing load on Cardiorespiratory and vascular system compensating blood flow to other organs.
Even with an untrained eye you can look at the legs of any die-hard runner and you will see this obvious distortion at work. Try this with a runner or cyclist:
Place the medial arches of the feet into a hip width (not too wide) and parallel (with each other) position. Bend slowly at the knees, and watch where the knees go. Each knee will point toward the opposite foot. This clearly demonstrates the degree of distortion which will get pronouncedly worse with each step taken, twisting the leg more out of shape and directly affecting and putting strain on the low back and sacroiliac joints.
It doesn’t stop there, cannot stop there, because you can’t pull one part of the structure (or more accurately, ) out of place without disrupting the rest of it.
Try this: Wrap a piece of your shirt around your finger and observe what happens through the rest of the fabric; imagine you could watch the whole shirt under a microscope when you do this. This is happening throughout the entire body, in every direction imaginable, moment to moment, magnified and compounded by all exercise, and especially, repetitive exercises.
We like to believe, to relieve ourselves of any responsibility, that injury incurred, like disease, is something that just happens to us. That we’re just fine, cruising along, doing nothing wrong, and then we just get injured, like winning an anti-lottery. We don’t just “get” an injury but we “get” a disease too ; we create them by concentrated neglect and abuse of our bodies.
They are the culminating symptoms bearing witness to the natural laws we blatantly transgressed, either in our ignorance or our naiveté.
Injury stemming from structural distortions causing chronic muscle strains and pulls, and degenerating joints and the tissue around them. These are the constant companions of the athlete who persists in strenuous (usually, but not limited to, repetitive) exercise and who has never realized functional flexibility( not laxity or loose joint) in his /her) own body.
Treating these symptoms with surgery, drugs, or more strengthening (shortening) exercises is a quick fix at best, with questionable results, and will ultimately only compound the original problem.I call this treating these symptoms with chemical and physical mimicry.
The missing link in all the activities rampant in our culture is elasticity . Flexibility is not just the ability of the body to move in strange, rubbery ways. The main reason you want to achieve, and maintain flexibility is because it reverses the distortion to the skeleton caused by over-shortening muscles and decompresses the poor, thrashed joints. Done properly true flexibility( it’s not laxity or loose joint) work aligns the distorted skeleton, decompresses asymmetrically compressed joints, and takes the stress and strain out of the soft tissue. It re-hydrates abused cartilage, flushing it out and fluffing it up. It opens blocked pathways of fluid and energy flows. It synchronizes all aspects of your being, allowing healing to take place on every level, effortlessly.
Does this sound like conventional stretching to you? Well, it’s not. Some other way of working with the body is called for, something which will do all of the above, and more.
In our ancient brain their is memory of flow of sequential order of coding in beautifully designed of our muscular architecture.
In our ancient brain has stored information or memory of these sequential order of Muscular architecture into a special form that is coding which is a secret of Nature or Universe.
All these movements exist in a genetically programmed form and are stored in the memory center in our ancient brain.
It’s a High tech – space science. spreading energy into the matter( energy is ability to arrange) and many more.
Swati Joshi
