Benefits of Unilateral Training
Hiiii there! I’m so glad you stopped by, today I will be going over the key benefits of unilateral training. Unilateral training is performing an exercise primarily with one limb. The benefits are numerous.
Benefits of incorporating unilateral training into your exercise routine:
Improves balance and stability - By doing single arm or single leg exercises it allows you to even out any strength or size imbalances your body may have. Most people tend to use one side of their body more than the other in every day activities. Unilateral exercises help to strengthen stabilizing muscles in your body.
Lift heavier and build strength - Many people don’t realize that they can build tremendous strength and become stronger by incorporating unilateral training techniques into their workouts. Unilateral training forces you to lift lighter while utilizing one limb, while doing this over time through out your workouts it will allow you to build up your strength significantly in each limb!
Correct muscles imbalances - Throughout our daily lives muscles imbalances can occur without us even realizing it. Muscles imbalances can occur from driving, chopping veggies, carrying our kids, bathing our pets, washing dishes and from so many other activities. We may not even realize we have a muscle imbalance until we start feeling pain that is associated with the imbalance or possibly when someone like a chiropractor asks you about it. Unilateral exercises allow us to overcome these muscle imbalances and correct them.
Builds core stability - Core stabilizers are deep in your trunk muscles. They include the transverse abdominis, internal obliques, multifidus and the paraspinal muscles. These muscles stabilize and support your spine, they protect you against injury, back pain and help improve your posture. Unilateral exercises allow you to build and strengthen your core stabilizer muscles. Which helps improve your posture.
By incorporating unilateral training into your routine it decreases your chances of injury.
