What is Carry Over?
Here is a little exercise terminology that sometimes confuses people so I thought I’d clear it up.
Carry over is how one exercise or skill can help you get better at another one. Improvement in one area “carries over” to something else. Often times a skill or exercise is lacking due to a muscle imbalance or weakness. By finding this weakness and working on it specifically we can not only get that muscle stronger but also the other exercise or skill.
Example: A person has trouble sitting “back” in a squat probably due to weak hamstrings and glutes. Targeted exercises to increase hamstring and glute strength will CARRY OVER and help that person do better squats.
So in this case by building stronger hamstrings and glutes, means you could have less low back strain. Better balance between the strength of your quadriceps (front of the thigh) and hamstring (back of the thigh) resulting in less knee pain, more knee stability. Sounds like a recipe for a healthy “win-win.”
You’ll see this commonly in physical therapy. The exercises are very targeted and repetitive. They are designed to get the body working as a unit, overcome muscle imbalance and make motions more natural. When the body works in unison, with each muscle doing its share there are less imbalanced joints, less chance for injury and better physical fitness and you can perform at your peak.
Carry over is huge in performance sports too. Olympic lifting, Powerlifting, sprinters, track and field, football, martial artists etc. Wherever there is a weakness in the lift or movement, there is an exercise to get past that and help the movement get stronger.
Everything we will do here at BreakoutWorkout.com is designed to have tremendous carry over. I don’t believe in fluff exercises, only your increase athletic ability in mind. Training your body to be strong from all angles will make you a better athlete, help you avoid injury and keep you healthy for the long term.
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