Correctives; Little exercises that make a big difference

When it comes to achieving a fitness goal, whether it be for performance or body transformation, it really pays to pay attention to the finer details of your body's biomechanics.

The word 'correctives' has become something of a buzzword in recent years and basically describes any exercise that is physically corrective in nature. It may incorporate an exercise or series of exercises designed to rehabilitate following an injury (rehabilitation) or it can describe exercises programmed as a preventative measure where a biomechanical assymetry or weakness presents a likelihood of injury occuring (prehabilitation).

Either way, corrective exercises performed with good form on a regular basis can make an enormous difference to your end results. For example, someone with over active anterior muscles (let's say, quads and hip flexors) and weak lower limb posterior muscles (ie glutes and hamstrings) is likely to experience lower back pain as a result of compensation, so it makes sense to redress this imbalance by prescribing corrective exercises that do exactly that.

This is where a regular functional movement screen and kinetic chain assessment (evaluations of the way you move and your body's postural status) are essential if you want to achieve optimal results and make the most of your time in the gym. They may only take a few minutes but the difference, both in terms of your output in training immediately after, and your progress, will be significant.

At Phoenix Pro Fitness every one of our All Access members undergo regular and thorough biomechanical evaluations and are prescribed appropriate exercises to optimise their equally individual training programmes, because ultimately a programme written specifically for you, your goals and your body will always deliver more than a generic routine.