Whether you are streaming online workout programs, using an app on your phone, or exercising based on a specific program that I or another fitness professional may have created, you are working to achieve the best possible form for each movement. And proper form leads to increased strength, improved skills, greater efficiency with less effort, and of course, practicing good form keeps you from getting injured!

No matter where you exercise, it is difficult to assess and correct your own form and progress. Over the years, I have hired a number of other trainers and coaches to help me with tips and corrections on the most fundamental movements, especially my kettlebell swing, deadlift, and Turkish get-up. I, like you, am a student, and like I tell my clients, there is no end or finish line to this exercise thing, there is only better, and then even better.

It is way too easy to fall into poor, bad, and straight-up incorrect exercise and movement patterns. Despite what you may have heard, muscles don’t have memory. So, muscle memory, yeah, that doesn’t exist. But your brain/central nervous system does have memory and they are the drivers of your movement patterns.

The last thing you want to practice is incorrect, faulty, or poor movement patterns when you are dedicating all the time that you are to exercising and training. If you do, then you end up practicing a movement incorrectly for hundreds and thousands of times which then takes hundreds and thousands of repetitions to correct as far as your brain and nervous system are concerned.  
To state the obvious, this is inefficient training.  

And it creates compensation patterns in your body that take a very long time to correct if ever are AND they create new problems that need to be addressed sooner than later. This is exactly why a 20-year old right ankle sprain can develop into a right hip and eventually a left shoulder problem down the road. Weird and cool at the same time, right? The body is amazing at compensating.