Muscle & Motion - an application that will replace the fitness trainer

Muscle & Motion - the perfect knowledge base for people addicted to fitness, inquiring minds, which always I wonder what happens to the body during exercise, and people are ready to improve their infinity technique.

Number of knowledge and visibility of information is impressive: moving 3D-models of muscles and bones, performance technique exercises, basic errors - there is everything that you may need to begin, finally, to engage correctly.

Immediately cons:

• all in English;
• From Muscle & Motion toll and cost a lot ($ 15 per month).

After registration is available the free version, of course with great limitations. If you do not want to spend money, you can create and view all 3D-rollers, provided free of charge. Or you can buy the app for a month, take a vacation and try to reconsider and remember everything. :)

Altogether Muscle & Motion there are three products: applications for strength training, yoga and anatomy study.

Yoga and Anatomy muscles

This is what offers Muscle & Motion Yoga: what muscles work in asanas, errors, problems and ways of solving them.

Anatomy useful for university students and professional coaches. I think very few people will get into the wilds of Latin names and study the movements of each muscle for their workouts.

Strength training c Muscle & Motion

The application for the strength training exercises to collect a large database with its own weight, exercise equipment, Expanders and free weights, a variety of techniques and methods, errors and tests for flexibility and mobility joints. That's it I'm going to show you.

Exercises

After compulsory registration go to the first tab - Exercises - and we see the blue-eyed man without skin.

In the left pane, you can select the part of the body that you want to see more. Suppose, head and neck.

On the right there are three icons: add or subtract layer and rotate the image. For example, you want to get a better look inside the muscles. Remove one layer and look at them without any interference.

Point to the muscle, you will see its name. If it is not what you do not say, just search in a search engine in Russian, and soon all will become clear. Here, for example, Sternocleidomastoid - it sternocleidomastoid muscle.

One click on the muscle opens the panel with exercises in which it is involved. Consider this panel as an example of the pectoralis major muscle.

On the panel you can see a few exercises that involve this muscle. Right - exercise menu on simulators, with a barbell or dumbbells, with its own weight, with expanders, loop and medical ball.

Choose the exercise and watch from different angles, as the muscles are working.

Red marked working muscles, purple - muscle-synergists, working together with key in this exercise, white - muscle-stabilizers.

Furthermore, there is a section with a common error, wherein in the movement shown right and wrong execution.

There are not only videos with exercise repetition, but also small cartoons featuring muscle-bone man and the little white creatures, which it corrected.

Also in the examples is a description of what happens to specific muscles, and short videos with real people.

The next tab - "Stretch". Here we show how to stretch muscles in statics and dynamics. Very useful for planning a warm-up and cool-down (you do not neglect it, right?).

There is a tab "Anatomy", but it is useful to have a professional trainer or medical students. Of course, if you have the desire to further explore the structure of the body, and why not?

Theory

In this section, a huge amount of useful information on common mistakes to training plan.

For example, as you can and you can not perform hyperextension. GIFCA on only part of the roller.

In the common mistakes and problems, you can select parts of the body to make it easier to search.

Another useful section - "Test and Measurement". It describes how to assess your flexibility and joint mobility. And if there is a problem, you can learn how to fix them.

For example, in the first clip tells that stoop, thoracic kyphosis and difficulties with correct execution of some exercises may be associated with hamstring muscles clogged. Next, we show how to find out whether you have this problem, and how to stretch these muscles.

In the section entitled "Methods of strength training" to learn how to select the number of sets and reps of different techniques: classical, circular and others.

In the "Biomechanics Strength Training" talk about how the body works in terms of the mechanics of how to find the perfect angle hand bend and legs during training.

The following section describes various techniques such as drop-sets and supersets of endurance training, an energy mechanism of the body, such as glycolysis.

Next comes information about how to schedule training for a week, and even lower submitted directly to the training plan for different levels of training. There are options for both beginners and advanced athletes training with different equipment.

Here is the workout for beginners with a short video with the exercises and the plan for the week.

Still there is a section where you can explore the types of muscle contraction: eccentric, concentric, isometric and isokinetic.

conclusions

The application seems to have everything you could need for an effective workout: exercise analysis techniques, fundamental errors and potential problems, knowledge of how to work the muscles and joints and how to move, to nothing damage.

You can make your own workout plan:

• select which muscles need to pump;
• select a few of the suggested exercises;
• see how to stretch those muscles after a workout;
• choose a training method;
• see, create an optimal training plan for the week;
• all write down or remember - and forward, to the gym!

In addition to versions for Mac and Windows is an app for the iPad and tablets on Android, so taking device to the gym, you can see the proper technique for exercise right in training.

The app will be cheaper services of any fitness trainer: as mentioned above, the price - $ 15 a month. Although it is, of course, a lot. And the app is not correct you if you're still doing something wrong, and do not provide you with lots of fun, which is important. And if your only goal - to save money, it is easier to gain knowledge from disparate clips on YouTube of sports channels.

Muscle & Motion to replace your coach, you should have a keen interest in how the body moves and what happens to him, the desire now and in the future draw up a program of training on their own, Focusing on their needs, and not have a psychological barrier before spending nearly 1 000 per month per application.

If this does not scare you with Muscle & Motion, you get a huge store of knowledge about your body, the possible errors and problems, many new methods and training techniques - and all this in a visual format 3D-movies.

And here YouTube-Channel Muscle & Motion. In addition to the advertising applications, there are many useful 3D-movies with analysis techniques and error.