Focus on Body Prime-Movers
Prime movers are the most responsible muscles for your bodily movements. They are the muscles that feel the most agony when your weight training, lifting, pushing, or pulling. Prime mover muscles are also referred to as agonist muscles, so that felt sense of “agony” fits.
There are three additional muscle types that function to work with your prime mover muscles: assist, stabilizer, and oppose. Stabilizer muscles do as they suggest - they stabilize your body during movement. Oppose muscles are also known as antagonist muscles, which perform the opposite action by moving in the alternate direction of prime mover muscles. Assist muscles do as the name implies.
A bench, stability ball, or Bosu alters the movement planes. Incorporating equipment will engage alternative secondary muscles loaded. Altering the plane of movement also impacts the gravity or load on systems moving.
GIG Design’s Movement Catalog is categorized by types of movement: balance, coordination, and endurance. Prime mover is one of the three goals each movement is tagged by, as well as fitness level, type of intensity, which body region it’s primarily targeting, and tools or equipment that may be optional or required. Select this link for category and tag definitions within our movement catalog.
LOWER INTENSITY MOVEMENTS
HIGHER INTENSITY
