Strength Training part #4 (Body Type 3)

Like I mentioned, I am going out of order just a bit on the Body Types. The reason is simply that #2 is a little harder to understand and having the knowledge of the other 3 helps. Well it helps me anyway so there you go. Body Type #3 is easily characterized by any someone who has some extreme tightness throughout their body.

 Look at the picture of this young man. He is extremely tight in his back as is witnessed by his lack of mobility even with the assistance of a partner Many adults fall into this category. Looking back at the heart of the philosophy, the part of us being a living adaptive organism, it is easy to see the cast analogy working on Body type #3′s. That is that when there is a lack of stimulus to the muscles of the body they will become weak, atrophied and very tight.

Long periods of little to no stimulus to the muscular system have created a situation where your body is no longer able to take itself through a full range of motion. In extreme cases of this body type there can actually be no range of motion at all. People that spend a lot of their day working at a computer, athletes who have not trained in a long time, preteen girls and teenage boys who get major growth spurts. All of these are examples of people who will most likely create some significant tightness in their body.

Chronic symptoms of body type #3 individuals are tension in the neck and shoulder area, those who,”carry their stress” in their neck. Also many chronic pain symptoms such as many types of tendonitis, arthritis, runners who get shin splints or plantar fasciitis. 

To train a body type #3 you want to focus on neutralizers. From the earlier posts these are exercises designed to counter the negative impact of any type of overload move you may use in strength training. With a Body type #3 think of neutralizers as a tool to help address the negative impact of lack of movement in your body over the years. By training in this manner you will be able to restore some of the natural mobility back into your body through the increase in muscular efficiency. Once this is achieved their body will be significantly easier to work with and your risk of creating any injuries or pain symptoms is greatly reduced.

Next up will be body type #4