Prior to each session, I first want to see what each and every muscle that crosses a particular joint is capable of. To do this, I’ll put your joints in positions where one muscle is emphasized more than any other muscle.
The goal: I’m asking each one of your muscles a super specific question. As you might have already imagined, it’s a challenge that each one of your muscles hasn’t been presented with.
The question goes like this: When all of the other players are taken out of the equation, are you (read: a specific muscle) capable of pulling your weight?
When the answer comes back as NO, then, I know the muscle in question is not performing to its full potential. See, when your muscles are presented with a super specific challenge, you’ll know whether or not they are capable of meeting that challenge.
No matter what you expect from your body, it could be walking, running, weight training, golf - you name it ______________, since your activities involve motion, muscle’s are required to pull.
In order for your muscles to pull efficiently, they have to be capable of generating an adequate amount of internal force.
The long and short of all of this: In order to pull optimally, you want a certain amount of feedback that’s freely flowing between the muscle and your brain.
If you’ve ever had a kink in a water hose, then, you can relate to what I’ve described.
When muscles demonstrate they’re not capable of performing at the level that they should be - that’s feedback. Feedback, that explains why any one of your muscles is tight.
To say the same thing in a slightly different way, if you have muscles that are tight, you’re also going to have muscles that are under-performing.
The key is to differentiate the muscles that are tight from the muscles that aren’t capable of pulling optimally.
Until I address the muscles that are under-performing, those same muscles aren’t going to get stronger.
So what does that mean for the muscles that are tight?
Well, until the under-performing muscles are addressed, the tight muscles will continue to tighten up (again and again...).
As bad or as annoying as tight muscles can be, the reality is, below your conscious awareness, those same muscles are doing their best to protect you from more pain or an injury. So when you stretch or foam roll or do anything else that is geared towards targeting muscles that are tight, it doesn’t matter how good it feels at the time, your brain is going to figure out how to tighten up muscles in such a way that they can protect you.
Which explains why stretching and foam rolling only allow for short-term results.
In essence, addressing the under-performing muscles is the difference between addressing the symptom and getting to the root cause. It allows for the weeds to be pulled out by their roots.
If you’ve ever stretched or foam rolled, then, you can most likely relate to what I’ve described.
I treat muscles with a unique form of deep tissue massage. You’ll remain fully clothed throughout.
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