Long ago, the practice of meditation and mindfulness stopped being a particular type of activity and moved into the domain of habits, which anybody could barely criticize unless in relation to good practices. Meditating, psychological exercise, overcoming his/her traumas, worries has become as normal as morning running. Particularly during the epidemic, the need of being able to feed oneself in a creative way is not a subject of conversation anymore. In exercise, physiological and mind-focused programs remain popular, aiming to improve body functions and mental stability—showing why mindful movement is the future of fitness.
Specialist at X-Fit in Russia Julia Malenchuk explains what a conscious approach to fitness is and its benefits. These sorts of classes work all the physical skills—strength, speed, endurance, flexibility, and agility; they work all the muscles—yes, including the deep ones; and the selected exercises allow you to achieve the full range of motion that is multi-planar. Conscious exercise aims, then, to permit the body to move as close to its usual physiology.
There is a lot of disparate information about the sports industry on the Internet
For instance, the primary function of the core muscles—which comprise the abdominal muscles—is to stabilize the body posture during running and walking, etc. We usually do crunches while on the floor, but this in reality does not give any results. Training starting from the vertical posture of the body and focusing on stabilizing strengthening will prove much effective.
It has nothing to do with whether or not the load is in a certain direction, nor what the load actually is; it has to do with how committed you’re already made to the process and exactly what happens to your body when you do a certain workout. Irina Troska, COO of X-Fit in Russia, says you also concentrate your mind and efforts on a specific area of the body instead of mindlessly following the instructor’s directions, convinced you are actively working on how the particular area functions and, hence, the general system.
What other problems can be solved with the help of conscious training
Moreover, the neutral posture of the body in mindful exercise receives much attention (the arrangement of body components relative to each other so that the ensuing distribution of force (mainly gravity) is ideal and the negative effect on the spine is low). Furthermore, we acquire movement skills that are exact considering the natural biomechanics, therefore limiting the possibilities of injury both during training and during daily activities.
One first lays a basis through the art of stabilization and control of the body’s position whether it is in a static or an active position and only at this point can one start to develop strength and reactivity. Including all the muscle groups in one exercise guarantees that the entire body is worked upon and accelerates the effects because of the physiological motions. Mindful fitness is also quite accessible as most of the workouts do not need for the additional equipments such body weight combined together.
In conclusion, my traditional question to the expert: what is your professional mission as a fitness trainer
There are innumerable exercises and their variety would never make one bored with them. When it will be feasible to reach the established set of goals as quickly, comfortably, with interest, and as safely as possible, and, above all, the organism will be ready to perform any actions, both in daily life and in the sporting field, this situation will increase the quality of life many times and all this becomes the reason to confidently note that the future is conscious fitness. With over six years of experience, Irina Deeva is a conscious fitness instructor and former master of rhythmic gymnastics.
Irina has attended around thirty different seminars, courses, and trainings during this time in addition to almost 2500 hours of client practice—Russian and even international—from far-off locations. We covered not only the most pressing medical issues but also the coach gave me specific life advise and discussed the common misunderstandings regarding the sports industry during our session. All the details from the Irina Deeva interview. First of all, let me say that smart fitness is an odd collection of activities for many; the stranger and more unusual the fitness is, the smarter it is. Not so, that is not it.
Conclusion
As you could even infer by the name, mindful fitness involves working with the mind. The classical fitness is partition of the body into halves; we work upon the arms, then the legs. There are arms. Ask a gym user why they work out their glutes; you will get an answer like this.
Everybody will reply: it looks good and does not sag. Regarding appearance, it is obviously favorable; but, a given coach-mentor has an interior goal as well. Therefore, if you neglect to strengthen your glutes, your knee will drop inwards and you will thus become internally overloaded. In life, this would show up as a sore knee; also, the pelvis is now free to rotate anteriorly and the lumbar spine is vulnerable to rising compensatory stresses. Furthermore, this is one of the fundamental differences in the relations to fitness: in the conscious method we see body as a whole structure and should we follow the chain to the end of the body then everything effects everything. We do not conceive of body as of partition into parts.
