Finding the Center
April 9, 2010
Yesterday I was at Fit Athletic in downtown San Diego with David Weck from BOSU Fitness. I love going in to work with David there because I only see him one time a week there, and every time he has more new ideas that blow my mind. David was developing a simple warm up to allow people to find their “center line”. This is the line of symmetry within your body that allows you readjust your balance and make efficient and exact movements with both sides of your body. Once you are able to discover your center line, it makes movements such, as opening and closing the hips, and pronating and supinating the arms, that much easier. I was able to learn a stance that gives myself the most potential to move in any direction- the stance has no name yet, but a possibility is the MOST stance- which allows one to be prepared to make any movement, in any direction, and have the MOST efficiency, balance, and range. David also mentions that a lot of the positions and movements we make can seen documented as far back as the statue “David” by Michelangelo and “The Thinker” by Auguste Rodin. In both “David” and “The Thinker”, their arms are in a supinated position, and many of the exercises involve these same movements, as demonstrated in these statues. I am excited to hear new things from David every time I go in and meet with him because his ideas about movement are amazing and help me realize how we can make our bodies move in the most efficient ways that our bodies will allow us to make.
