Weightlifting (Working Out) – The Main Strength of an Alexander Technique Teacher (Pain)(Strain)(Injuries)(Posture)(Psychology)(Albuquerque)

This ebook, An Alexander Technique Approach to Weightlifting (Working Out), 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 the weightlifting technique you want without sacrificing your body.
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Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. (MOVEMENT THERAPY)
What makes the Alexander Technique teacher so extraordinarily good at working with weightlifters is our ability to work outside of the box, whether the Alexander Technique teacher has ever lifted weights or not. In fact, the Alexander Technique teacher who has never weightlifted may be able to give the lifter what he or she needs in a way that is way outside of the box. What do I mean?
When I was an aspiring concert guitarist, I went to an Alexander Technique teacher, because I was causing carpal tunnel syndrome to my left wrist, practicing the guitar hours and hours every day. Because the Alexander technique teacher I worked with was not a classical guitarist, she effortlessly got me to question everything I did on the guitar from head to toe.
It was extraordinary for me after years of playing and after many fine guitar teachers, to dismantle everything I thought was necessary to be a concert guitarist, and create my own personal guitar technique. (I do the same with my Alexander Technique clients, not letting my personal classical guitar technique override my Alexander Technique training.)
I kept what worked, let go of what didn’t work, fined tuned what almost worked, and added whole new ways of accomplishing for the first time what I was truly capable of on the guitar.
What I bring to the weightlifter are the eyes of an Alexander Technique teacher. I assist the lifter in being able to consciously use his or her whole body in a completely balanced, powerful, and coordinated way. I teach the weightlifter how to lift with ease without paying a physical price by collapsing or hunkering down to lift.
How do I do this? I went through a three year training, and in my Alexander Technique training I learned to use my whole body with ease and balance in everything I do, from walking, to brushing my teeth, to playing the guitar, to teaching the Alexander Technique.
My training also taught me to look at any activity, from running to weightlifting, and to spot when the person is sacrificing his or her body for the activity. What does this mean? It means when I work with the weightlifter, I can clearly see when the lifter is hunkering down paying a painful physical price to lift with control and precision. I can see when the weightlifter is not connected to his or her torso and legs when lifting the weight. I can see when the weightlifter is not balanced from head to toe when he or she lifts, and because of this whole body imbalance, is using too much muscle, which causes wear and tear to the joints.
What I also bring to the weightlifter is that I embody whole body good use as I assist the lifter in creating his or her personal powerful, and balanced weightlifting technique. This means, even if the lifter doesn’t know it consciously, I demonstrate to the weightlifter with my own posture how to lift without pain, strain, and compression. I also use verbal directions and directing hands on the weightlifter’s body to communicate what is needed to create a pain-free lifting technique.
SINCE I AM NOT SACRIFICING MY BODY AS I TEACH THE WEIGHTLIFTER, EVERYTHING ABOUT MY POSTURE, WORDS, AND HANDS COMMUNICATE TO THE LIFTER HOW TO DO THE SAME AS HE OR SHE LIFTS THE WEIGHT.
An Alexander Technique teacher is extraordinarily unique in the world of postural teaching, because the Alexander Technique teacher is teaching the weightlifter to do as the Alexander Technique teacher EMBODIES and says, rather than doing only as I say. Simply, if I tell you to curl the dumbbell without locking your neck, and I tell you this with poor posture, you will have one heck of a time learning to curl with a released, lengthening, and dynamic neck and decompressed spine.
You won’t know why curling with a free neck seems so hard, but it is because unconsciously you are receiving conflicting messages from me talking about good posture and exhibiting poor posture. A certified Alexander Technique teacher can truly say do as I do, do as I say, and do as my hands are communicating to your nervous system through my free nervous system.

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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.