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Aneirin -> RE: Cataracts, hips, knees and tonsils: NHS begins rationing (7/30/2011 9:12:08 AM)
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The spine is the most important part of our body, because from it everything is supported, so time spent looking after the spine is time well spent, and how the spine is held in position, is not hard to work out, given that we know what muscles and ligaments are for, for that is what keeps the spine in place, hopefully a neutral position, where there is no strain in any direction.
But what I do with machines is the same as the body, I break the complexity down into systems of lines and angles, the stick figure if you like and analyse from a position of simplicity. In fact if one learn to stand in a neutral position, one can see how their spine holds their body by looking in a full length mirror from both planes.
But of the exercises I have found that work for me, they include Pilates, Iyengar yoga and belly dancing, to me they seem to work in conjunction with each other. But then where do these exercises originate, in no place other than with the ancient peoples of the Middle east and Asia, and from them the exercises for good health and living has breen brought to us.
The exercises you mentioned, the schroth method I had seen something of, but did not apply them, and that because hey, Iyengar with a bastard instructor was enough, that form of yoga is all about pain, but the bastard instructors have a good eye and make sure everyone is doing the exercise correctly, hence, very small classes. But Iyengar works quickly, it builds muscles where you didn't know you had them, and then belly dance again that also develops muscles you did not know possible, or at least ranges of movement quite unlike anything you would normally use in life, and with those ranges of movement, you exercise things not normally exercised
But as to Isometrics, that is my preferred method of exercises in the past and when it is I need a change from the norm, and I even have one of those old Bullworker machines from the early seventies, i pick up now and again, it quite capable of providing an exercise method even today, for it has not gone out of date.
But muscles beyond what is needed to keep the body in it's correct form and function I am not interested in, bulging muscles do zilch for me, as I do not see the point beyond vanity, besides surface muscles get cold easily and there malfunction, whereas deep muscle covered by a layer of fat, is where the strength is. I tend to aspire to the Asian physique and that because of where the exercises that I know work for me come from. Asia can teach us a lot.
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