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Relaxation & Fitness (cont.)
How often have you seen someone in a gym doing leg extensions with a tight neck, grimacing face and bulging arms as they hold on to the seat. So not only are the legs working hard but the rest of the body as well. All unneccesary and all burning good energy. If you can isolate the muscles (in this case the quads) and let them do the work then you will be in total harmony with the exercise. Part relaxed and part tensed.
Look at top quality sprinters: the legs are working to max capacity the arms are driving BUT the face and the shoulders and the hands are relaxed. Perfect harmony. Not easy to achieve, but demonstrably possible.
And finally in martial arts there is a great emphasis on working with relaxed muscles that only 'switch-on' at the point of contact.
A good question with loads of corallary implications.
Hope this helps explain.
Thanks
David
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