One of the things that’s different about my exercise system is that the exercise sets are joined and flow together to make one continuous routine. You don’t stop and start, as you go from one set of repeated movements to the next set. I call them my pass-through, or transitional movements, and consider them the reason my exercise system is so good at shifting weight concentrations from the stomach/ hip areas and proportioning the body as the exercises are developing a strong, healthy body. It’s what gives you total body control of your muscle network.
People who watch such an exercise session frequently comment that it looks more like a dance routine than an exercise workout. To which I reply, “You’re right, and it’s what makes it possible for me to say, put a male ballet dancer next to a football player and you’ll see that the dancer could probably surpass the football player in flexible strength.”
If you’re familiar with my exercise system you can see and feel it as I start with the head/neck stretching that begins the upper body warm-up, adding the arm stretching to the side, then down, engaging the lower body and legs - all in a smooth, connected way without stopping between sets.
If you were in the military, doing a daily workout, your drill sergeant would be shouting out the instructions, and you’d be doing exercises of physical tension – not just to get you in shape, but to train your mind and body to react to commands. You see the same cadence in many civilian exercise classes that concentrate on the sport conditioning of exercise science.
But you’re at home, and you’re not an automaton. Turn on the music, engage the whole body, and maintain the movement transitions smoothly through the entire body. It’s called joint articulation. More specifically, call it developing flexible strength, which is going to serve you very well as you age, believe me.
