Michol Dalcourt is an expert in human movement and performance. He is the founder of Institute of Motion, inventor of fitness device called VIPR and also a cofounder of PTA global which is for fitness professionals. As an international lecturer and educator, Michol has authored numerous articles on human design and function, developed a series of performance videos and created and athletic model for high performance training (the RMA model). -https://instituteofmotion.com/about-iom/professional-accomplishments/
Michol is more focusing on physical innovation strategies but not only for performance but also for management and sustainability of biological functions. There are also some pros and cons of training if the training dosage and exposure is too high, all of us need a healthy baseline so we can get better results and high performance.
When asked about the meaning of stress Michol replied that we all are under stress including animals. If you put an animal in the cage and provide it food daily even then you will see that it would be out of balance because it can’t move anymore and will be in stress about its food, movement etc. In the same way we have personal stress, work related stress and physical stress.
How can a person improve its performance? In response to this point Michol told that movement itself is a stress. It’s a mechanical stress and we need mechanical stress because that signals things to happen in our body. So we do know that lack of movement doesn’t facilitate the right signaling pathways. From movement perspective we would know that lack of movement and lack of exposure to mechanical stress is going to affect muscles and so muscles get smaller that’s called atrophy, our blood volume decreases and so we have frail tissues.
What is movement training and what is its impact on the sports training we do? Michol explained that we should adopt those exercises which are suitable to our body and our body easily accept them. People try to do heavy exercises in the gym all day and they get nothing except body loss and sometimes muscle injuries. Exercises should be variable and sustainability and keeping in view four quadrants. Always try to do variable exercises so your body gets nourished. Sending your children to farm instead of gym is better because you only get stress in gym as in the farm you get different positions as well as exercises.
What precautionary measures should we take to avoid injuries? In reply to this question he told us that our body cannot do same task for long time like, someone can dig a ditch whole day because his body movement, position vary every time but if we do gym exercise repeatedly we will not be able to perform it for longer period. He is not against the gym exercises but he suggested that other exercises must be a part of our routine.
What are four quadrants and how they are used in training sessions? Michol explained all quadrants through examples. Bench-press exercise for the chest, so the first quadrant is loaded and linear. Bench-press is the great example of loaded linear strength building exercise for the chest. We put load repeatedly and it leads to hypertrophy. Second quadrant is unloaded linear training consideration that might be a body weight linear part. Push-ups are different from bench-press because our body is moving and hands are static in push-ups and vice versa. Most of life depends on body and motion, in most of the gym exercises our body is static and hands are in a motion and in our life hands are still and body is in motion. Third quadrant is unloaded movement or multi planer training, crawling base push-ups is an example of this quadrant. Last quadrant is loaded multi planer training. Grabbing cable at shoulder side and so all the body parts like our hands, body and feet all have different positions at every step. So these are four exercises; a Bench-Press, a Push-ups, a Crawling Push-ups and a standing cable press, these all are chest based, they are all pushing based, they are all strength based but there is high degree of variability and we have to do all of them to improve our heath. Most of the athletes have common injuries and those all are due to heavy loadings and they wear and tear their body instead of making it good.
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https://instituteofmotion.com/
