Champion league results require champion league action

Whether you are a professional footballer, Joe Bloggs or a little old woman. You can only get out of a movement program by what you put in by your daily lifestyle, choices and habits. Having a proper evaluation of the bodies systems will show your areas of weakness and strength.

Clients predominantly enquire to me to improve their movement patterns and core strength. If we want champion league results we will look at root causes rather than symptoms.

Everyone has a different biomotor abilities and need. Bio means life and motor means movement.

The biometor abilities are:

Speed
Agility
Flexibility
Strength
Power
Co-ordination
Endurance
Balance

So for example a bio-motor profile of a professional football player would be different to a power lifter. As the demands on a score of 1-10 will vary as both involve different profile moves. Even if you sit in an office all day it is so important to work out your stress load so that you can start to condition for life with health first.

Any sport specific conditioning is a threat to the bodies systems. If you don’t have optimal posture you will have muscle imbalance syndrome. This means the body is not ready for that specific sports program.

Those clients who embark on the CHEK one to one program with me are taken through an advanced program design program. This means we look at the level required and where the base line of the client is starting from. Base line health is looking at the internal systems. All glands and organs talk to the body, as they talk to the connective tissue. Anytime there is stress in an organ, the blood supply is restricted to the muscles as its priority is to get to the organs and glands that need it the most. The waste removal in these organs is then applied to these areas.

If you are going to do any sort of intensive training with poor quality organs and glands you will get poor quality results. ‘Life is movement’, published in 1920 by Eugene Sandow stated that “No man can achieve optimal strength until his glands and organs are healthy”.

The purpose of the core, power house and bandha is to stabilise the spine, head and neck complex so they can optimally work as a team with your arms and legs. Any issue in the feet, knees and hips or wrists, elbows and shoulders should be assessed in conjunction with the core (including the organs glands and breathing patterns. The amount of injuries in football are because of the asymmetrical load, forces through the lumbar spine and excessive torsion that this sport requires. Hence Paul Cheks quote “You cannot fire a canon from a canoe”. Your core is responsive to your internal organs and we need to train the body to handle the loads. On the hierarchy of survival it is always organs first before muscles. Diets that inflame your gut like gluten, food additives, chemicals, stabilisers, preservatives, alcohol and coffee are going to produce inflammation which in turn switch off your abdominal wall, which destabilises the spine.

Rebuild the body from the inside out

When we are in pain, compensatory patterns, imbalances, muscles and joints talk to the rest of the body. A preconditioning exercise that you can do is 4 point tummy vacuum. Click the link to watch.

Conscious competency is having the awareness to program the nervous system using neuromuscular reactivation exercises. Four tips to be an optimal athlete, parent or little old lady are:

Eat good food so that you do not inflame the gut
Do a corrective stretch program so that you restore your tissues
Mobilise joints and spinal joints so that all the strictures work properly.
Work from isolation into integration. This ensures you are building the system progressively so you have motor intelligence and motor vocabulary

When you are in good health and optimal, these habits will become unconscious competency which take you to the champions league.

Bibliography

Soccer conditioning – Paul Chek blogs and training

About the Author: Nisha Srivastava

Nisha is a certified level 3 Chek practitioner and holistic lifestyle coach specialising in Pilates and Yoga. Her journey started when a visiting Laban teacher introduced her to Pilates at Dance College in a contemporary class during her first year. Its effects were forgotten but she then re-discovered Pilates through Michael King eleven years later whilst running her dance school. Her background spans over 32 years with formal training in classical ballet, modern dance, tap, national choreography, stage production and theatre. Her formation includes Pilates, Thai bodywork, Yoga, GYROTONIC, GYROKINESIS, Garuda and anatomical studies. Her particular interest is fascia, and the connective lines and movement patterns that allow a full moving structure rather than the isolation of bones and muscles. Her fascination with questioning the traditions of modern medicine and fascination with searching for meaningful answers has taken her in many different directions and has offered her an abundance of opportunities gaining a wealth of knowledge. “I tried many movement modalities and extended my search after experiencing fascia, because of its connection of movement. Quickly, I noticed my own body changing, as well as the bodies of my own clients. In the last 32 years of teaching I’ve developed my own movement and lifestyle philosophy". Throughout her studies Nisha has done numerous dissections with Julian Baker, Mel Cash and Cery Davies and has the opportunity to take lectures and courses from James de Silva, Robert Schleip, Joanne Avison, Tom Myers, Matt Wallden, Leigh Brandon, Emma Lane, Gary Carter, Paul Chek, Dan Hellman, Peter Blackaby plus many more. Nisha's teaching method promotes reflective self-discovery and provides the requirements to integrate a shift in consciousness for attaining individual goals. Nisha teaches in her own studios in St. Helens and Manchester, plus she also has an online following. Throughout her career she has also taught Sting, Sir Ian McKellen, Cirque de Soleil, Will Young and Belinda Carlisle. She has also worked in professional football and both Rugby League and Union for over 20 years. Players she has provided a specific program for were former Manchester Citys Vincent Kompany, Everton's Steven Pinnear and goal keeper Jonas Lossi. She maintains that an attitude of compassion, consistency and joyous humour are excellent components to growth and expanded potential. She welcomes all level of movers from the beginner to the seasoned athlete who have a desire to increase their skill potential, also teachers and students. Her specialties include assisting post rehabilitative back pain individuals, injury prevention for athletes and spine health for everyday people.