Benefits of Restorative Exercise
Ultimately, you are how you move. Luckily, you can learn to move differently, with a better outcome once you know how movement works and what is beneficial to your body. While many of us live a sedentary lifestyle and sit for long periods at our jobs and homes, exercise is our best medicine to stay at optimal health. Restorative exercise is beneficial for many and helps ensure that your body is functioning properly and feeling its best!
What is Restorative Exercise?
For your body to function properly, exercise must be done in a comprehensive and holistic manner. Oftentimes, weakness in the components of your body is what causes many degenerative conditions that impair the body's optimal function. Simply put, restorative exercise focuses on easing pain and restoring joint function through the use of simple movements that are designed to improve the flow of oxygen throughout the body.
In recent years, the exercise community has had a heavy focus on more intensive exercises (ex. HIIT training). But these workouts focus more on burning out the muscle, rather than helping them recover, to maintain or increase strength.
How Restorative Exercise Impacts Your Body
When our muscles and joints aren’t allowed to adequately recover from intense bursts of exercise, they stiffen, ache, and break down. This can affect energy levels and our ability to age well. Restorative exercise is necessary to keep the body fluid and functional.
Restorative exercise can also help improve the function of your lymph system and cardiovascular system and help improve bone density and normalize blood glucose levels. Restorative exercise will increase muscle mass, reduce fat, and increase core strength.
Ultimately, restorative exercise teaches you how to restore healthy movement patterns that are necessary for pain-free movement, instead of just treating the symptoms of your pain.
With custom medical and M.A.T training, we’ll begin with a powerful muscular assessment tool that analyses and corrects muscle imbalances. Take a new approach to your fitness; contact me today for an appointment!
Components of Healthy System Function
Once you learn how to move properly your entire body works better. Here’s how restorative exercise impacts how the entire body functions:
Musculoskeletal Conditioning
After training with a restorative exercise, you will begin to see improvements in your muscular strength, endurance, power, and muscular stability. Having an optimal level of musculoskeletal conditioning prevents injuries and muscular imbalance and weakness.
Flexibility
Restorative exercise helps the connective tissues in your body become less stiff and increase their pliability. This in turn will increase your range of motion and flexibility. Improved flexibility allows for enhanced circulation throughout your body and helps alleviate problems due to poor posture.
Cardiovascular Health
Cardiovascular exercise helps decrease fatigue and improves endurance in your everyday life and recreational activities. You can reduce the risk or even reverse the effects of hypertension, non-insulin dependent diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, and obesity!
Balance + Stability
When your muscles are in balance and your body is in structural alignment, your joints, muscles, and nerves can function as efficiently as possible. With improved balance and stability, your day to day life, and athletic ability will improve, and your risk of injury will be reduced.
Improved Posture
Over time our bodies adapt to bad posture. Inflexibility, weakness, and pain might develop from the repetitive strain of holding the body in these misaligned postures. By working on your posture, restorative exercises can improve your posture and alleviate pain.
Gait Mechanics
Restorative exercises can improve mobility when walking, by alleviating the source of problems that cause weakness, imbalances, and inflexibility. Decreased mobility can be due to an injury, a spinal condition, stroke, or other neuromuscular conditions.
The proper use of restorative exercise and gait training exercises helps improve comfort when moving, and the efficiency of this movement.
Better Performance & Ease of Movement
The ultimate goal of restorative exercise is to maximize the body’s full potential. The improvements that you will notice in your strength, posture, balance, gait, cardiovascular health, and flexibility can be applied to your performance goals in the gym or other athletics.
Restorative exercise can be beneficial to those who want to lose weight, become stronger, recover from an injury or medical conditions, or just look and feel better. Call Dynamic Fitness and Medical Training in Tampa, we can help you move your best and return to optimal health after an injury or chronic health issue!
Feel the Benefits of Restorative Exercise
There are many types of restorative exercise, and I can help create a plan just for you that includes specific exercises, dynamic stretches, and Muscle Activation Techniques (M.A.T.).
Under the right conditions, your body can do an amazing job of regenerating and repairing itself. Unfortunately, most of us have never known these “right conditions.” Restorative exercise teaches you how to create these right conditions and get you on your way to optimal health! Remember” exercise is our best medicine.
Do you have chronic pain? Would you like to try restorative exercise? At Dynamic Fitness, I can create a plan just for you! Call 813-422-5671 for a consultation, or schedule a fitness assessment today!