What's the deal with the pelvis and body shaping?
You've probably heard the term "pelvis" used by experts, including personal and body shaping trainers. It's not too late to start your body shaping journey after you fully understand the relationship between the pelvis and body shaping. In fact, doing so will save you unnecessary time and effort and prevent you from taking the long way around.
Pelvis = Body Shaping
Pelvis = Women
Keywords like "pelvis," "pelvic body shaping," and "pelvic diet" have become staples in yoga, Pilates, women's personal training, women-only gyms, women's magazines, and articles for women online.
The first thing to understand about the pelvis is that the relationship between the pelvis and body shaping isn't just for postpartum women. It's not about starting with pelvic training just because you've given birth.
In fact, despite doing exercises and training related to the "pelvis," countless women have consulted us with cries of frustration like:
- I didn't lose weight as beautifully as a model...
- I didn't get a slender physique like a model...
- I didn't lose weight...
Even people who call themselves diet specialists or personal trainers are currently providing body shaping guidance using the plausible-sounding word "pelvis," figuring that amateurs won't know the difference. They only have a shallow understanding, such as:
- Correcting pelvic distortion for dieting...
- Adjusting the anterior or posterior tilt of the pelvis...
- Correcting left-right pelvic distortion before training...
Haven't you also been toyed with by this kind of ambiguous "pelvis" talk that you sort of understand, but not really?
When it comes to the pelvis, the most important thing is to give it the proper "pelvic play" or looseness.
Look at the picture of the pelvis.
Can you see the proper "gap" between the bones?
This proper gap is the foundation for creating "pelvic play." This "pelvic play" isn't good for body shaping if the gap is too large or too small. In reality, there are more women with a gap that's too small and a rigid, stiff pelvis than women with a gap that's too large.
Top models with great figures naturally have "pelvic play." Because their "pelvic play" is proper, they can achieve body shaping effects even with just a little training. And it is because their "pelvic play" is proper that their legs and calves don't get bulky even when they jog.
To lose weight beautifully, you must first create the proper "pelvic play" that top models have. Proper "pelvic play" is the absolute foundation of body shaping.
You can't even begin to talk about dieting or body shaping until you've solved this "rigid pelvis" issue and achieved a state of proper "pelvic play," which is more important than left-right pelvic distortion or anterior-posterior pelvic tilt.
Proper "pelvic play" is like the play in a car's steering wheel. The car won't go straight if the steering wheel has no play. It's the same as how putting a fantastic engine in a car that won't go straight is meaningless.
In other words, it's mechanically obvious—and something you can understand with a little thought—that adjusting the left-right pelvic distortion or anterior-posterior tilt without first addressing a "rigid pelvis" is unfortunately pointless.
Conversely, if you resolve your rigid pelvic state early in your body shaping training, you'll see a rapid acceleration in not only the changes to your visual silhouette and physique but also in your weight loss.
Yet, surprisingly, this is often forgotten...
With that said, you're also aware that doing typical pelvic training to fix a "rigid pelvis," such as suddenly sitting on a balance ball and moving your hips, can actually worsen the stiffness.
Furthermore, if you train with multi-joint barbell exercises known as the "Big 3"—squats, deadlifts, and bench presses—while you have no pelvic play, you'll only make the rigidity worse. This is because the movements in these exercises are exclusively uniform, linear body movements relative to the body's planes.
Moreover, if you train to correct your pelvic tilt or distortion without first addressing a "rigid pelvis," you'll only become more rigid...
In short, if you do multi-joint barbell training like the Big 3 with a rigid pelvis that has no proper play, you'll end up with a physique that lacks definition and won't lose weight as you hoped, even with dieting.
Additionally, for women's body shaping, doing lower body exercises blindly with a "rigid pelvis" is dangerous. It's especially dangerous for women with the agricultural-ethnic physique common in Japanese people, where the lower body is more solid. This is because you'll prioritize using your calves and thighs, making them feel tight and bulky...
Don't women dislike it when their calves and thighs get bulky?
Unless, of course, you want your calves and thighs to get bulky...
So, how do you create proper "pelvic play"?
You can probably understand from a mechanical standpoint that a single-point solution, like just getting on a balance ball and moving your pelvis, is meaningless. It's just like trying to adjust the joint angle at a single point, which naturally won't be effective. Even with "pelvic play," proper coordination with other joints is essential.
You probably also know that massage and chiropractic treatments are meaningless. This is because there are muscles around the pelvis, and a balance adjustment for each of these muscles is necessary. This requires you to move the muscles yourself through training to at least some extent, which is physiologically impossible with passive techniques.
For women who want not just to lose weight but to lose it in a well-balanced way, it's crucial to properly handle the first major hurdle: "pelvic play." You need to create "pelvic play" in a way that is appropriate for your individual body.
Furthermore, from a physical standpoint, the pelvic tilt when viewed from the side (anterior tilt, posterior tilt, or vertical pelvis) is essential for changing your body line.
However, this is also true: if you don't correct your pelvic tilt with proper "pelvic play" as the prerequisite, you will develop muscles in places you don't want them.
Training that uses imbalanced muscles will just become a painful workout.
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