Daily Maestroism

DM #255

Thursday, February 2nd, 2017

DM #255: Modeling may champion symmetry, but gravity could care less what your face looks like.
When that badboy is bearing down on us all it cares about is pulling us down, and the fact that our bodies are not built symmetrically means that we won’t get pulled straight down.
While all may look even from the outside, open up any cadaver and you’ll notice rather quickly that our insides are quite asymmetrical. A liver on one side, a heart on the other, 2 different sized lungs, a pancreas here, a gallbladder there…suddenly things aren’t looking so picture perfect.
So what does this mean? Well, instead of simply pulling us straight down, our inherent (and beautiful) asymmetry (combined with the handed world that we live in) causes gravity to act on us in a non-uniform way, bleeding out as rotation. This part can get compressed while that part over there can’t get compressed quite as easily. That means that while this side is going down, that other side ain’t going down quite as fast. There’s a very real reason why you rarely see involvement of both sides of the body equally.

So, my point? Work on your transverse plane movement and get after those unilateral drills. Your body will thank you.
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