Elliptical Machine (Trainer) – Conscious Control in the Alexander Technique (Pain)(Strain)(Injuries)(Posture)(Psychology)(Albuquerque)

This ebook, An Alexander Technique Approach to Using the Elliptical Trainer, is published on this website in a PDF format. It is very detailed and practical, and it will give you the physical tools you need to take the limits off of your ability to create an effortless elliptical technique.
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Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. (MOVEMENT THERAPY)

CONSCIOUS CONTROL is what F. M. Alexander called regaining control over the voluntary musculature of the body. The voluntary musculature is defined as the external musculature that you tell what to do with your thoughts and intentions. What happens over time is that an elliptical trainer user’s ability to use the machine free of pain and tension in specific areas of his or her body is lost, and so he or she consistently hurts.

If an elliptical trainer user comes to me and says his knees and shoulders are hurting, and I tell him to just release these muscles, he’ll look at me like I’m crazy. The truth is he has lost conscious control over these muscles, and it seems to him there is no way to get them to release.

It is your ability to tell your body what you want, and your body responds with exactly what you want, that Alexander Technique teachers help elliptical trainer users regain in their bodies. The ideal body response from a loving intention is pain-free and coordinated movements, that gives you the control over the trainer, so you can use the machine pain-free.

What has to happen for all of the above to happen? You have to be intimately connected to your body, and to accept that THE BODY ALWAYS GIVES US WHAT WE BELIEVE ABOUT IT, not what we want. Let me explain?

If you believe the volunteer musculature of the body does anything independently of your beliefs and thoughts, then you do not have conscious control over it. Your belief that the body can do what it wants, will block you from being able to release the habits that have gotten you in constant pain as you use the elliptical trainer. You will be unable to tell your body what you want it to do, without forcing the body to listen to you.

What I just said is critical! If you believe you regularly have to force the body to listen to you when you use the elliptical trainer, then you have given the body a mind of its own. But, the only mind your body has is your mind. Let me explain.

I believe many elliptical trainer users believe the body does things independently of the person’s intentions, and that’s why he or she can’t use the trainer pain-free. This isn’t true, but boy is it self-fulfilling. Again, the body responds to what you believe about it, true or not true.

When you believe something that isn’t true about the body, then what else can the body do but fail you at times, maybe a lot of times. So, when your beliefs are conflicted, then you don’t get consistently effortless pain-free use on the elliptical machine from your body. Having just said what I said, let me back track a bit.

You can be good enough to use an elliptical trainer, if your technique is good enough and you’re in shape, and you will NOT tolerate your body not giving you what you want. This is not what I call a loving approach to using a trainer.

What is loving? If you accept/believe you have 100% control over your voluntary musculature, you have an elliptical trainer technique that doesn’t harm your body, you have a fully lengthened upright balanced posture as you use the elliptical trainer, you trust your body to give you exactly what you want, then you will have conscious control over your body on the trainer.

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Ethan Kind

AUTHOR, TRAINER "When you change old habitual movement patterns with the Alexander Technique, whether in playing a musical instrument, running, weightlifting, walking, or typing at a computer, you create an ease of body use that moves you consistently into the zone." - Ethan Kind Ethan Kind writes and is published extensively on all of the above activities. He teaches musicians, athletes, and computer operators how to stop hurting themselves, by showing them how to use their bodies with ease and coordination. He brings a unique perspective to his work, having been a musician and athlete all of his life. After training for three years at the American Center for the Alexander Technique (New York, NY), Ethan received Professional Certification credentials.