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If you do free weight exercises, the first improvements you make have nothing to do with raw strength but with learning the proper technique and building a move
by allendoerfer 10y ago
If you do free weight exercises, the first improvements you make have nothing to do with raw strength but with learning the proper technique and building a movement pattern. Your smaller stabilizing muscles learn what to do. You progress very fast. Within a few weeks you learn how to do it and you lose the shakiness.
- L_226 10y agoHi, sorry but this is false. There are no such thing as 'stabilising muscles'. Whilst you do learn the proper technique over time (and this eliminates 'shakiness') - this is due to muscle memory and improved proprioception and NOT an increase in strength in stabilising muscles. One caveat - you may improve core strength which could help with stability for some of the more dynamic lifts. Generally on the internet when people say 'stabilising muscles' they have the impression that humans have little extra muscles in the shoulder that help with keeping a bar horizontal or some such which is of course ridiculous. Source - college athlete.
- allendoerfer 10y agoThanks for the correction. Maybe I have to rephrase a bit, it is not shakiness but outright bad form, for example when you do squats or deadlifts and your knees move inwards, it is because of a weak vastus medialis [0] (had to google that), which is a stabilizing muscle, not the main muscle involved in squats. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vastus_medialis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vastus_medialis
- pmarreck 10y agoI started a twice a week program with a personal trainer almost 2 months ago. Looking to up it to 3x/week soon. So far so good. Still have some shakiness.