Test muscle strength on kinetic chain EP 19

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Here is a glance at what you'll find in this episode:

Hear how muscle function can become out of balance and what are steps to take to regain muscle balance.

What can be done to test your muscle control and improve your mind-muscle connection?

Learn about the kinetic chain of body movement to move better with fewer injuries.

Listen to the weight training and strength workouts repetition range for gaining muscle tone and mass.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, and welcome back to the Power of Muscle podcast.
It's great to have you here today, and in today's episode,
we are going to make sure that we look at
evaluating testing our muscle strength, seeing where our muscle and
balances are because muscle imbalances, as we have seen over
the decades and decades of training that we've done with
our clients. Whatever level you're at, if you have a

(00:24):
muscle and balance, meaning the muscle is not strong enough
on one side versus the other one of the body
right left, or the front or the back of the joint,
then that muscle and balance will cause dysfunction. Dysfunction then
causes the injury. And of course, on the reverse side
of that, if you have an injury and you're in
rehab and you've done your your rehab to make sure

(00:47):
that the joint works properly, now it's to go to
the other side to make sure you don't continue having
a muscle and balance and create much more function in
the in the joint and in the in the muscle
around that joint, and then you can get to the
performance level you want to have. So we want to
keep performance or we want to rehab, we're looking at

(01:08):
muscle testing with strengthening and that can be with a band,
that can be with a kettlebell machine. Uh, you know
for for lower lower weight usages. Uh, you know, whether
we're using a barbelle of dumb bells. We're looking at
testing and seeing whether our front of our body or
the right side of our body versus left side, the

(01:28):
front or back is having a muscle balance. How well
do you can you control the muscle and do the
muscle find a method which is the M three muscle
find a method that we use here at Mind Muscle
Memory and the Power of Muscle Challenge and in whether
or not you're able to do the same amount of
repetitions with the same resistance level on say the front

(01:50):
of the elbow which is the bicep and forearm, or
the back of the on the right side versus left side,
or is there muscle and balance on the on the
front to back which is would be tricep the back
the extending of the arm rather than the curling of
the arm. So if you just think about that, you're
curling your right arm, tightening the front of the arm
the biceps and forum in versus extending and using the

(02:12):
forearm in the back of the tricep to extend the arm.
Do those feel equal on the front back on your
right side versus your left side. So again I'm bringing
this all to you here a miles betcha. And after
getting a degree in health sciences and playing sports throughout
my life and continuing to play sports, then I've really

(02:36):
all the decades and decades of training since the early nineties.
Here coming up on all those decades, the nineties, two thousands, tens,
and now the twenty twenties, it's going to continue to
bring to you the information which will produce results which
will get you from again overcoming an injury and finishing

(02:58):
your rehabilitation of the joint to where you can have
excellent functioning, not having pain, not having discomfort on a
daily basis, because your muscle and balance will continue to
cause discomfort and it could even reinjure you, which does
happen at times. But we look in to make sure
we function really well and we are pain free. So

(03:22):
when we look at our muscle equalizer diagram, so that's
what everything based off of the power muscle and over
at mind muscle memory, you can go over to mind
muscle memory dot com. You'll see the power muscle and
you'll see the equalizer image. That is where you have
the person is standing arms out extended, and you have

(03:44):
four spheres. You only see the three the one that
connects the wrist joint and the ankle joint. That's the
outside one. Then you see the circle from the elbow,
the hinge joint of the elbow and the hinge joint
of the knees. That that's the kinetic chain there, and
then you see the one for the shoulder and the hips.
But the one on the inside there is the rib

(04:05):
cage and the pelvic bones, right, so those are our
flat bones. So let's sort of start with looking at
making sure that the flat bones, meaning the ribs, the
rib cage, and the pelvic bones are connected properly with
our core. Inner core. That's what we call the inner core.
The outer core is where it goes from that sphere,
the outer part of the rib cage and the outer

(04:27):
part of the hips to the ball and socket of
the hip socket and the ball and socket of the shoulder.
So we need to test these, right, You need to
test them with a band, You need to test them
with maybe a kettlebell, or some cable or resistance cable.
You can test them with all these different devices to

(04:48):
see if you can do the M three muscle find it,
which is you have a controlled pattern of flexing the muscle.
Three second flex, three second release, so eccentric you're let
the resistance out ecentrically, continuing to keep the muscle flexing,
but letting it out on a three second count. So
you want to try that one one thousand, two, one

(05:09):
thousand and three, one thousand, one, one thousand and two,
one thousand and three, one thousand, or you can count
to six, whatever one works for you, and make sure
that you can perform that arm curl, let's say, with
a band for ten repetitions, so it's three seconds out, four,
five and six flexing inward. And you can use that

(05:29):
band on the right and left side of doing the
right hand and then left hand, and can you do
the same repetitions. And we want to test this on
all of those points you see on that equalizer equalizer
figure that you see, so you know that equalizer figure
with the sphere at the ribs and the and the

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pelvic bones, the sphere at the shoulder and the hip socket,
the sphere of movement for the kinetic chain on your
knee and your elbow, those hints joints and the sphere
of movement for your wrist and your ankle, which are
multifacet joints, right, they go in all directions. There's multi
bones in there, and we want to make sure that
those are equal. So if you can do a calf

(06:15):
phrase moving the ankle in the proper movement pattern with
the right, can you do the calfhrase single leg calf
phrase with the left. That's one that I actually came
into play just recently. I have done some rehab so
I can get back to running at a fuller speed
without injuring my foot. I was displayed at physical therapy.

(06:41):
The physical therapists evaluated the ankle and the bones in
the front of my ankle were not sitting properly with
my tibia amphibula here. That tibia is at the front
of the shin bone coming down there, so they weren't
sitting properly in there. They were too tight, not having
the right mobility, so all the stress was going out
to the front of my foot or the base of

(07:03):
my toes, and I had a lot of strain in there.
And luckily that has been rehabilitated nice and smoothly, and
I'm starting to reuse my calf. But in testing, they
tested me right calf could not do as many as
the left calf. Right now, as I've gone through the
phase of where I'm eighty percent mobility back and there

(07:25):
now my right leg is actually greater than my left
leg is. My left leg was not as much motor control.
But overall I am I can do twenty five calf
phrases single lay calf phrases now and the higher level
they said to be able to run long distances, fast distances,
whatever you want to do, interval running, so that you

(07:46):
should be able to do thirty five on each single
leg caf phrase. So that's my own experience, and I've
been doing this since I was obviously very young. I've
had physical therapy multiple times through plane sports, and at
all times they said, now you have to get your
muscle to function properly. And then I would of course train,

(08:08):
and I would train myself, all clients. We would work
together as a group of athletes. We'd all train to
make sure our muscle balance is balanced so that we
can function properly and have less injury. Okay, so this
is where I created the muscle equalizer. This is where
I created the muscle equalizer sphere. The image you see

(08:31):
and the power muscle brings you through the stages of
level one, two, three, and four to test adapt your body.
So immediately now we want to get to the goals. Yeah,
test your joints. Test the elbow, Test the knee, the hamstring,
the back of the knee with the lake curl the
front of the knee with the leg extension. Test your

(08:53):
hip mobility. Get to test all those with fairly lightweights,
seeing how many repetitions you can do, because it is
about getting upwards of fifteen or more repetitions to really
get that muscle function and get the muscle strength. Back
Weight training is not about lifting heavyweights. Unless you're going
to do a specific sport weight training or maybe a

(09:16):
high impact sport something like that, you might want to
do some more heavier weights, but everything is going to
be about repetitions getting that muscle to gain the muscle
memory and get the muscle pattern. That's everything. So again,
visit mind Muscle Memory dot com and make sure you're
part of the points challenge that we have and that's

(09:36):
the Power Muscle Challenge. It's based on points. You get
a certain number of points. Every time you are engaging
in eating right and doing your workouts, you get points
and you build up points to go through level one,
level two, level three, and level four. And we give
you tips, pointers and everything along the way with videos,

(09:56):
with this podcast and everything. So just make sure you
subscribe and become a follower and be joined the movement
to become a muscle equalizer so you can maintain strong
muscles and maintain excellent physical capacity and all the muscles
all throughout life. As again it's shown that a seventy

(10:17):
five year old lifelong exercise or muscle does not look
any different in functioning and looks in metabolic activity than
a twenty five year old that the scientists could not
tell any difference between the two. So you can maintain
this muscle structure all throughout life if you're doing your
proper exercise patterns, your proper muscle control, strengthening and eating

(10:40):
to support that strengthening and keeping a high metabolism along
the way. That's also what the Power Muscle. Obviously, you
see the pyramid with the four levels shows on the
left shows if you have low engage, low strength, low
muscle balance, your muscles are balance. You can have atrophied muscle,
they have low metabolism. High metabolism comes from having that

(11:03):
muscle balance, having those muscles active, being able to do
all your activities all the time, very high output. That's
where we have the high metabolism. So let's get there again.
Thank you so much for listening to the Power Muscle Podcast.
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(11:25):
Hope you learned a lot on today's episode about muscle testing,
getting becoming a muscle equalizer, and getting a high metabolism,
and we'll continue to bring these this information to you
right here at the Power Muscle Podcast. So thank you
so much. Have a great day.