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Hello,
Just wondering about the right way to brace at the end of each lift/push if you will.
Maybe I have complicated things but saying "brace for a punch" can be done 2 ways so saying that in and of itself does not help much.
For example: When you are laying down on your back... if you take a deep breath in, your stomach, belly button, and below the belly button will come out creating a balloon in front of you. This can also be seen when standing if you take that deep/low breath which expands that entire area (making you look fat if you will)
At this point... you now 'brace'.
What I am trying to technically work out is... when you brace, are you keeping that balloon shape... does it feel internally in your body that you are creating an 'open' feeling/space... (feels like going to the toilet if you will), nothing is held 'inward' but open and being pushed downward which results in the stomach being 'pushed' out (like the big breath in) or is it something else where you are holding in, you are not pushing out etc...
Do you brace with a flat stomach, or one that looks like a balloon? - In music/singing the Idea is to capture your 'low' support which is all the low abdominal muscles which results in the balloon shape. I tried to watch some youtube stuff and it seems by doing that your are lengthening your abdominal muscles (since they are stretching) which results in weaker muscles than short muscles and etc... So i am a little confused what goes where and is this where music/gym is different, one is balloon and one is flat, or is it supposed to be the same and what I seen on youtube is wrong or what.
This is little hard to explain but I hope someone here had the same issues and worked it out.
Just wondering about the right way to brace at the end of each lift/push if you will.
Maybe I have complicated things but saying "brace for a punch" can be done 2 ways so saying that in and of itself does not help much.
For example: When you are laying down on your back... if you take a deep breath in, your stomach, belly button, and below the belly button will come out creating a balloon in front of you. This can also be seen when standing if you take that deep/low breath which expands that entire area (making you look fat if you will)
At this point... you now 'brace'.
What I am trying to technically work out is... when you brace, are you keeping that balloon shape... does it feel internally in your body that you are creating an 'open' feeling/space... (feels like going to the toilet if you will), nothing is held 'inward' but open and being pushed downward which results in the stomach being 'pushed' out (like the big breath in) or is it something else where you are holding in, you are not pushing out etc...
Do you brace with a flat stomach, or one that looks like a balloon? - In music/singing the Idea is to capture your 'low' support which is all the low abdominal muscles which results in the balloon shape. I tried to watch some youtube stuff and it seems by doing that your are lengthening your abdominal muscles (since they are stretching) which results in weaker muscles than short muscles and etc... So i am a little confused what goes where and is this where music/gym is different, one is balloon and one is flat, or is it supposed to be the same and what I seen on youtube is wrong or what.
This is little hard to explain but I hope someone here had the same issues and worked it out.