Gain a Great Golf Game

Golf is a love-hate game of mastering mind and body. While the world of non-golfers might call it an expensive non-sport, golfers know that it is a beautiful obsession of perfecting the inner and outer man and enjoying nature from a unique perspective. Anyone who answers the calling of the competition with the biggest playing field knows that it is not just a silly, ball-chasing waste-of-time. It is a character-challenging sport. It requires persistence, a well-disciplined mind, judgment of spatial relationships unmatched by any other, plenty of physics calculations under various conditions, and amazing body control.

You are either one of the golfers that feels it is hopeless to improve your score and therefore play the game for fun, fresh air, and fellowship, or you are among the desperately competitive who outwardly or secretly aspire to achieve perfection and be the best. Your dedication to becoming a better golfer is reflected in how much time and money you pour into your game. Some of you, after years of trying to master each aspect of the game, have fallen short and fallen to frustration.

You just didn't know that you could easily restructure your body so you effortlessly rotate your spine, hips, knees and ankles and adjust precisely during every type of swing. No one told you that you can train your shoulders, elbows, wrists and hands to freely maintain stabilizing form without spending weeks to years laboriously trying to get them to re-pattern.

You are dependent upon increasingly equipping your body and mind to perfect the golf motions if you want to improve your score. The Cyto Advantages coaches you to make motions you need today so you can incorporate them today. No more spending frustrating hours trying to bend things that cannot hold position throughout rotation and straightening parts that don't have the muscular coordination.

Gain the control you need quickly by applying biomechanical laws. The Cyto Advantage will manually assist and coach you to add hundreds of your personalized priority motions for your sport. You will gain unprecedented mobility and stability so your swing is controlled, adjustable, consistent, and precise. This training program teaches your muscles and mind to judge the angles and distances while making you feel better and younger. Don't wait years to improve your score when you can experience the excitement of your new-found body now. Perfect your swing and putt. The Cyto Advantage is the advantage you have always wanted to control your body, your club, your ball and your game.

Get Back Into It

You've got backbone. Use it. As the expression implies, your fortitude attests to the ability of your back to support you. Your core strength reflects the core of what you can do. There are many ways to get a job done, but what would you do if you could get your back back into it? Twist, turn, pick things up from your back, bend over backwards, move in any direction you feel like moving.

You can have the back of your dreams. It is possible. It is not too difficult. This is your back. If it is not adequately accomplishing your goals, you need the backbone to make your backbone the support for your lifestyle. You need The Cyto Advantage to safely and expediently add many ranges of twisting and turning, bending and carrying, lifting and enjoying your craft and your life.

Whatever you want to accomplish depends upon your back. From sitting to standing, eating to playing, working and working and working, everything you do, even reading and sleeping, needs a strong back. You will do everything better with higher quality and more fun when you prioritize to take tender, loving care of your back.

When it comes to dealing with pain in your back, often I improve back instability by strengthening your legs down to your toes or your arms to your hands depending where you are having problems. This increases the participation of your limbs so that your limbs “carry their weight” and team with your back to improve stability and strength. I also manually improve motions in your back that you have had trouble making for years. This is often sufficient to improve the biomechanical causes of muscle strains and spasms, improper forces on disks, pinched nerves, and other problems due to imbalances and weaknesses.

Beyond simply getting rid of pain, I'd love to help you learn to control any or all of your precious back so you can live your dreams and do the good you desire. You have 630 plus muscles in your body. One hundred ninety-eight (198) of these attach to your ribs and vertebra of the back side of your trunk. They are there so you can have plenty of fine tuned motion and power. When you get to using your neglected muscles, you will be able to rotate, bend forward and backwards and to the sides in any combination to whatever extent that you want. Combine these with the front muscles of your trunk and the way your your hips, shoulders, and neck work with your back, and your core can produce substantially more control, accuracy and brute force than you currently can imagine.

Whatever your sport, whatever sleep habits, whatever your age, lifestyle, or goals, invest in your back to give back abundantly and last a lifetime. Get your back back on track. Move freely.  Getting back into it can happen within days to weeks.

Relax

Renewed life always means peace and tranquility. I've written mostly about the increases in your abilities with The Cyto Advantage. Today's blog emphasizes that improving your biomechanics means greater peace in your body.

When things are working well, there is order. When things are not feeling peaceful, your body feels the strain of things out of order.

This does not mean that when you train, you are not going to feel challenged. Improvements take discipline. However, discipline does not mean distress. Discipline to me means consistently applying what is good. I do not believe it is good to be distressed. I believe distress is another warning sign we are to heed if we want good health.

When I help you improve your biomechanics using my Precision Exercises or my Precision Manual Techniques, your joints and muscles feel looser and more relaxed. Your joints will be more stable, and your muscles will be stronger. Looser, relaxed, more mobile, stronger and more stable all go hand-in-hand. Together, these things are the foundation of greater power, faster reaction times, more speed, greater balance and efficiency, endurance and all good things that we want as athletes and participants in life. Even in the kitchen and walking the dog, these qualities help. You have much more available for your health and performance to excel as you advance in the application of knowledge.

We all have choices. We can choose what we want for our bodies. Many have been taught, “No pain, no gain.” But I do not agree with this paradigm. I believe pain will always warn us that there is a better way.

With every session, your biomechanics improve substantially and so does the organization of your body. You feel better, more relaxed, looser and your body feels more at peace. You make gains in performance and activity levels while reducing stresses and strains. When you can make the time to treat your body to the care it needs, call The Cyto Advantage to train you well and leave you relaxed.

Having Happy Shoulders

All your joints are special, but your shoulder joint is amazing. Not only does it have the greatest ranges of motions, but the integration it has with your elbow, wrists, hands, rib cage, head, neck and rest of your spine is astounding. Add the timing it has with your legs when you're walking or running and you can see why so much of your life hinges around a well-functioning shoulder.

Your shoulder joint is unique because of the shoulder blade. The shoulder blade is controlled by 24 muscles, articulates with two bones and coordinates motions with 35 more bones (your head, 7 neck bones, 12 mid back vertebra, 8 ribs, 5 low back vertebra, sacrum, and your sternum).

A lot goes on to provide dexterity, coordination, large and small motions, and strength and power. With all that the shoulder blade offers, it is one of the least understood and most important contributor to the shoulder motion. Do not overlook it or underestimate its potential to help you excel in your sports, daily activities, and to rehab.

If you are having shoulder problems, you simply need to understand which muscles are weak and strengthen them. Shoulder instability, pain, and weakness result from not adequately involving the 24 governing muscles into your routine. By the time you have notable problems, your elbow, wrists, hands, rib cage, and spine are also out of place due to weakness patterns.

Correcting the patterns comes quickly by regaining strength in the highest priority ranges and freedom of motion in the surrounding joints and at the shoulder. You may have incurred damage to tendons, muscles, and other tissues, but these can heal when the complex shoulder girdle is brought back to order. Once we apply the knowledge of how the shoulder is integrated with the surrounding joints and the shoulder blade, your shoulder and you'll be back in the swing of things within days or weeks. Having happy shoulders is within your reach!

Strong Ankles Can Change Your Life

You are just stepping off the curb or playing tennis, when, “Ouch,” you tweak your ankle. No matter whether you are doing something routine or are demanding a lot from your body, if you are caught with weakness and instability, your joint shifts excessively and the tendons and muscles are traumatized.

You may do Yoga and Pilates. You may walk and jog. You may lift weights or do very little. You may get massages, do postural training, have a personal trainer. The question remains, “Why do I have weak ankles?” 

This video shows the how the ankle responds to high forces.  Note that the defender is strong, but it is his being caught with the inability to match the force that causes the destabilization of the joint.  For the athlete wanting to out-compete another athlete, it will take priority-strengthening the ankle and the rest of his body to redistribute the forces rapidly and appropriately.  To keep from wobbling or falling from a "twisted ankle," the concept is the same.  Strength must meet demand or the ankle gives way to weakness.

What helps the body to recover and repair quickly and what prevents the injuries are the same: Empower muscles of many areas of your body to permanently maintain repositioning of your ankle joint during motion. This is dynamic stabilization.   When you do this, you take the strain off the at-risk or hurting tissues to promote healing, and the pain subsides. 

Static stabilization attempts to statically position the joint for healing.  Co-contractions, rest, immobilization, taping, braces, and static positioning methods support healing by restricting and limiting motion.  “Twisting” your ankle does not happen “statically,” that is, when you are not moving.  Instead of restricting or limiting your body's motions and your rate of healing, you can reduce your recovery time and gain priority ranges as you improve with dynamic stabilization.

Your ankle, as simple as it may look, is very complex in its ranges. With the contribution of the many bones of your foot and the way the two bones of your shin move with the ankle and the knee, you cannot expect dynamic strength gains unless you prioritize and purposefully train the ranges of the surrounding joints.

For an older person, even a dozen priority ranges could give you the stability on your feet that could save your life and quality of life. It can keep you from hitting your head, breaking your hip, depending on a walker, or wheelchair. If you are an athlete, it ought to excite you that you can gain such a clear advantage as you out-maneuver your competition, improve your speed and accuracy, and keep from serious career-costing injuries in your feet, ankles, knees and hips. Having strong ankles can change your life. 

Realize the Goals

From my contribution to today's Performance Analysis Group discussion:

In transition, biomechanical screenings would help prevent injuries, but ideally it is the proactive involvement of the athlete and the design of the training programs that must be suited to prevent injuries. At the foundation, all professions that involve the body must understand the significance of biomechanics, and athletes too must be attached to this knowledge. The paradigm today supports injury, first because education has been too sterile (meaning, compartmentalized and not practical).

It is important that professionals in our field and end-users shift to promoting education and research in the private sector. The competitive market is more aggressive in practicality. From experience, the university setting has many drawbacks for progress; the two most damaging are thinking their knowledge and approach to learning provides the best and only way and being paid to research only and not as a combined effort of research and application.  This comment is to highlight the paradigm.  I am not implying all in the university setting think and act this way.

To transition under our current education model, education must occur early and more comprehensively.  We must promote that learning anatomy, physics, biology, and chemistry have practical power to transform lives and prevent life-changing injuries. Athletes also need to be trained to know their body, not simply to know their sport. This would mean coaches, teachers, and parents too must have a strong grasp to pass this on. We are headed this way. The more we realize the goals, the better we can fulfill them.