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Imagine you are doing pushups, you do five and you look like a professional, but after five you start to get shaky even though you can still do fifteen to twenty more. This is when your neuromuscular coordination starts becoming weak.
Neuromuscular coordination refers to the muscles ability or a group of muscles ability to perform movement with fluidity and grace. Dancers like ballerinas have very good neuromuscular coordination.
Neuromuscular means that it is dealing with the nerves of the muscle. This begs the question, how do you strengthen the nerve of a muscle?
Simple really, you must, however, get creative with your exercises. Many people who do weight lifting will develop big and powerful veneer muscles, but they are leaving their core to stay just as it was before they bought a gym membership.
If you look at these weight lifters on a balance board you will notice they either cannot stand on one, or they are extremely shaky when trying to maintain their balance. Let's not laugh, but what good is having muscles if you can't use them to their full potential?
Well they look good. That is one thing.
Many people are going to want to develop functional muscle that actually benefits performance. To do this you will need to practice neuromuscular coordination.
You will have to incorporate strength training, flexibility, speed, endurance, power, and balance. Strength is an obvious necessity, but it is not the only thing we need.
Flexibility is going to work your muscles in a way that is exactly opposite of contraction. Abduction is when you practice moving your limbs away from your center.
This pulls the muscle and tears them from deep within the core, by stretching you are going to even out the muscular development. Be sure to incorporate stretching into your exercise routine.
Speed is another big one that people often forget to incorporate with their exercising. When you practice exercising with speed, this is usually done through HIIT (high intensity interval training.
This doesn't build muscles but it trains plyometric reflexes. This is how the basketball players with skinny calfs jump four feet into the air.
HIIT is also going to double up on power. Power is a mixture of plyometrics and good strength, for real power you must have both of these.
Endurance is going to mainly consist of cardio strength. Often people will begin to weaken before they have pumped their muscles to their full extant, this is because they have poor cardio health.
Take up jogging, and really push yourself to keep the jogging pace up. Often people begin to feel tired and give up on their run long before they actually had to.
Stay determined and keep focused. Lastly balance exercises, like yoga and Pilates, are going to really train core muscles and tighten your body, making you lean and mean. Destry Masterson is an author who has written hundreds of articles. She publishes articles for http://www.nordictrack.com and recommends them for treadmills.
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