When training elastic bands, if you don't know the essentials of your movements and your muscles are unbalanced, your body will often maintain a bad posture (such as chest or waist collapse). Long-term training with bad posture will not only reduce the training effect, but also fail to achieve the original training purpose, it will also cause muscle strain and increase the chance of injury. Trainers can refer to professional elastic band training videos for training.
1) Retract jaw
In daily life, for example, when using a computer or watching TV, we can easily maintain the bad posture of tilting our head forward. In the elastic band training, if you maintain this posture for a long time, it will change the physiological curvature of the cervical spine, make the peripheral muscles rigid, and make the cervical spine degenerate early. Therefore, when training the elastic band, you should pay attention to the lower jaw slightly retracted, do not lean forward.
2) Slim shoulders and chest
During training, shoulders should be relaxed and sink, retracted back, and chest up. Since each joint of the body has a most suitable movement position, if the joint is in a bad position, the pressure and wear caused by the movement of the joint will increase, resulting in injury. Therefore, when training with elastic bands, shoulders should sink as much as possible and retract backwards.
3) Abdomen straight back
We need to pay attention to good posture during training. During training, keep the pelvis in a neutral position (not leaning forward and backward), while the abdomen should be tightened slightly inward, which can increase the stability of the trunk and prevent injuries.
4) Knee toes
The knee should be slightly flexed during standing training, and not too straight. This is because excessive knee straightening will cause the posterior knee ligaments and soft tissues to stretch and relax, resulting in joint instability and easy injury. In addition, during standing training, the knee joint should be towards the toes and not buckled inwards to prevent injury to the medial ligaments.