Use isometrics as a teaching tool 👨🏽🏫 for those who need help fine tuning positions or exercises
Your brain is processing a lot when you’re exercising - even with seemingly simple moves like the lunge in this video. It’s trying to simultaneously make sense of:
👀 The visual stimuli in the gym
👂🏼 Your coaching cues and explanation
🧠 All of the internal feedback it’s getting (proprioception) about WTF the body is feeling and where it is
⚡️….and probably 10 other things they have going on in life they are actually thinking about as they forget your cues 🤣
This is where isometrics can be an efficient teaching tool. Slowing things down and forcing them to hold a position for an extended period of time removes a few other variables and allows for them to get in tune with what they’re feeling and help optimize their position.
No to mention the challenge//burn is one of the fastest ways to bring them directly into 💯 focus on the exercise - no distractions.
Hopefully this can then carry over for them on the motor learning side of things as well. Eventually we want more autonomous technique and corrections to their own form aka we want them to inherently know what the exercise should FEEL like.
For a lot of people using more purposeful isometrics could be the missing link to getting there.