Sports
For athletes involved in sports as diverse as long-distance running, swimming, basketball, and golf, the benefits that come with training in the Alexander Technique are increased speed, accuracy, efficiency and stamina. Athletes with chronic injuries can learn to better keep injuries at bay as they learn the skills of refined proprioception, economy of effort and a greater control of the mechanisms of balance and coordination.
Every athlete can benefit in learning to use the body in ways that do not add unnecessary stresses and over-efforting to the musculo-skeletal system. In athletic activities, we often deal with habits of over-work and too much tension, which interfere with our best performance. When we add the challenges involved in learning a new skill or the pressure of competition, (exactly the time when economy of action and an absence of tension would be most desirable) these habits are accentuated. The habits of daily practice will be the habits of the most important performance.
When pain and injuries occur, lessons in the Alexander Technique aid recovery by the process of non-interference of muscular tightening and non-compensation in other parts of the body.
The Alexander Technique heightens awareness of habitual patterns, and teaches new choices that can free up the entire neuro-muscular system. With improved integration of nerves and muscles and the skeletal structure, an athlete becomes a more finely-tuned instrument and produces a higher quality performance.
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