Muscle Control

Muscle Control is about the ability to flex or relax a muscle in both the flexed and extended position. When we lift weights, our nervous system is responsible for intiating the strength required. A mental willpower on these muscles will help activate the multitude of muscle fibers. Leverage is the key to lifting heavy weights, and through learning how each muscle stretches and contracts, you'll be able to find the leverage points more easily that apply to your body. Height discrency is a factor as well as limb proportions in leverage on a particular lift.

Max Sick was an oldtime strongman from the nineteenth century. He devised a system for developing muscle control for each muscle. Here is a link to the

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The body is split into the head, neck, shoulder, arm, thorax (chest), back, abdominals, and legs. Within those, there are subdivisions, like the tongue, eyes, teres, serratus, intercoastals, scapula, lats, spinae, traps, pelvis, biceps, crachialis, brachioradialis, fingers, forearm, triceps, gastrocnemius (calves), toes, glutes, hamstrings, quads, and tibilialis.