Exercises for lower body can come in handy when you’re a senior athlete.

Instead of preparing to run or lift weights for this past weekend’s Washington State Senior Games, I chose to do some un-conventional exercises for lower body.

Exercises for lower body. The other side of the coin.

As a senior athlete, I’m very interested in how my muscles can return to function as quickly as possible. By working with the space between our ears, namely the brain’s cortex, we can reset the muscles back to a comfortable resting place so they won’t ache, complain and need any ibuprofen.

Getting the gold is one thing, being able to be comfortable afterwards and ready to play again is another.

Rewiring the brain with exercises for lower body using somatics exercises takes out any compensations and substitution patterns.

Since many of us substitute or compensate with our muscles, to regain better function through a re-wiring process with our given structure… takes time.

It is in the very time of now, we can observe how we can change our self.

Taking steps to increase our function with exercises for lower body even during an event can allow us to move well especially after the competition is over.

Limping to the car and looking forwards to the hot tub is what some people will do.

Athletes who struggle with compensations are like the many people who have to be athletic just to move their body around by pulling themselves or trying to move rather than it being more effortless, easy and comfortable.

Undo the compensations with exercises for lower body

Are we all so far away from graceful movements? Hardly, if only we were to re-program the muscles, then we’d get to experience that youthful wonderful movement we once had or were denied.

By working with the brain, we can lessen the negative output to the muscles. We can take out the stress and excessive tension.

What I mean is the excessive tension and holding patterns that muscles will do based on habits, shortening of our muscles and even things like dietary issues and medications which compound how we can effectively move.

Exercises for lower body can be done with the least effort when our brain organizes movement in an efficient manner. We can regulate this time and time again.

To manipulate ourself well in space, to move as well as you can… doesn’t require hard work, just focused attention on how well you can move.

As we become consistent, then we restore our natural ability to do what all healthy vertebrate animals do which is moving with awareness.

The quieter we become in ourselves, the more we’ll notice… and there’s a lot beneath the surface if we dare to venture inwards. We can sense how our compensations can unwind with unique exercises for lower body.

Unlike stretching or strengthening, with somatics exercises you are engaging the brain’s motor cortex where the learning of movement occurs as well as the resetting of the muscle’s length.

Exercises for lower body to un-lock muscles

With the number of substitution patterns and compensations we’ve created, we can still unlock and unlearn those so we can improve our movement patterns which is vital to moving well for the long run.

Even certain training habits and the usual exercises for lower body where we’ve been cued a certain way may have fostered a furthering of compensations unless we took the time to release those compensatory habits.

Moving with natural patterns rather than conditioned patterns allows us to return to moving freely. Then, we use those conditioned patterns in the games and activities we enjoy.

With our 600 muscles and 17 layers of muscles, it’s no wonder some of the aches and concerns we have remain a mystery or are left un-resolved.

We can help resolve things with unusual exercises for lower body. We can go back into our sense of movement and notice the adjustments which take place.

By noticing our own self-adjustments, we can master the art of moving well before, during and after our competitions, games and dances.

Becoming aware of how we hold ourself, we can truly let go and return to moving effortlessly and easily with some unusual exercises for lower body known as somatics.

Want to change the quads, psoas, and other leg muscles in a very different and easy way?

Join us this week, Friday August 5th for an online class on exercises for lower body.