Form is usually a missing component in the beginner’s exercise program. A lot of people have a hard time coordinating the muscles they haven’t used. It makes sense. Sitting at a desk isn’t the most demanding activity.
That’s why a simplistic approach works well. Get good at a few different exercises and then develop that exercise to a deep level. You can increase the benefit of an exercise over time by making it into a meditative, deepening experience.
Experiment with body position, where you focus your eyes, and with what your intention is. (The deadlift, for example, goes better for me if I imagine pushing the floor away from myself—that’s my intention.)
Learn how to use your entire body to perform an exercise, even if it’s a supposed upper body or lower body exercise. Put your mind into your entire body and try to interpret exactly where every part of your body is.
What many people attempt to do now is to separate something which can’t be separated: the body and the mind. The mind is off reading the news, watching the television, reading a book, or thinking about the day’s events while the body is moving around stupidly, devoid of its master.
Learn to shut all that down and devote a short amount of time to being strictly with your mind and body as you coordinate it in movement.
This isn’t your obligatory 30 minutes of mind-numbing cardio. This is a combination of mental and physical exercise. It’s about using your mind to improve your exercise to get better results in less time. It’s not a quick fix. Exercise is something you have to do for the rest of your life.
Might as well get good at it.
Start by checking out the descriptions and videos on the exercise page.
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