Age Slower, Get A More Athletic Body, & Master The Other Half Of Fat Loss... Just 10 Minutes Of These Follow-Along Body Repair Circuits Will Restore-Your-Body And Accelerate Your Body Results. Despite our best efforts, most of us have virtually no idea what were doing when it comes to stretching, so we say its pointless — when, in fact, stretching the right way can easily double the speed of your fat loss results. Instantly figure out why youre tight and how you can fix the problem in just 10 minutes a day — youll enjoy faster results and a more capable body. Dear Friend, This lesson is for your body — Im writing this letter to let you know about something almost every client Ive ever trained or patient Ive ever seen has - the wrong muscle strength to length ratio. This imbalance slows down workout results and sometimes-even-prevents any progress from taking place. You may be trying to lose fat, build muscle, or get out of pain but simply are not getting results fast enough. In just 30 seconds, with a postural assessment that you can do at-home, well identify exactly what is holding you back from getting the results you deserve. A warm-up is meant to bring more blood and oxygen to the cold muscles youre about to use — the best way to do this is by gradually increasing intensity and workload on your heart, not by stretching. Once your muscles are warm and filled with blood, only then are they likely to respond to stretching. In truth, a much more effective purpose for stretching, or muscle elongation, is function, not warm-up. By prioritizing stretching for function, you’ll be working on the 50% of fat loss and muscle building that virtually nobody else is. In order to see optimal results from your exercise program, you need to balance strength and length. Stretching for function means just that: balance your bodys muscle strength and muscle length, and youll see faster results. Warning: Warm-Up Stretching Doesn’t Work & Can Lead To Injury Unless you warm-up for at least 20 minutes with some combination of aerobic and anaerobic activity, its unlikely that your muscles are prepared to stretch — not to mention, your flexibility may actually get worse. In addition, if you are stretching a muscle when you should be mobilizing it, you could be increasing your risk of injury every time you work out or go for a run. For example, there is a lot of conversation about stretching being bad for runners. In truth, flexibility may be the culprit when mobility, another form of stretching, is proven to reduce incidence of injury by 3-fold. A bit of clarification: there are three kinds of stretching, not one. Flexibility — Passive stretch on a muscle. For example, stretch until you feel a slight burn and hold the position. Muscle Mobility/Activation — Your muscles ability to lengthen with movement. For example, as you squat, you are lengthening your quads. Tissue Quality/Mobility — Muscle fiber alignment, along with the outer casing of muscle, and ensuring adequate blood flow. For example, after you tear a muscle, scar tissue forms and creates a web of tissue to protect the old tear. This web of tissue puts pressure on the muscle (creating a knot) and does not receive good blood supply. Most people stretch by doing flexibility exercises before a workout. As you now know, this barely offers any gain. When we choose mobility exercises, the outcome will be so much better.... Instead of Stretching: Strategically Release Tight Muscle Tissue Step one to developing a customized muscle balancing program is figuring out your muscle imbalances and then linking this to why youre not getting optimal results. So, lets begin by assessing your posture to find your muscle imbalances and fat loss blockades. Correcting posture improves function of all muscle groups because correct posture equals a balanced body, and a balanced body means more strength from each muscle. Step two is fixing your muscle imbalances and posture by choosing the right exercises. Depending on your specific situation, it may be better to choose flexibility exercises for some muscles, mobility for others, and/or to release tight tissues. When we say release tight muscle tissue, were really talking about restoring the slack, or forgiveness in your body. Restore your slack and your body will become resilient again. Take a babys body, for example, which has a lot of slack: its very agile and resilient, much like a rubber band. Your body is designed to be resilient, too. The trouble is you may have run out of slack, or length. Youre not really getting old, youre just running out of slack. Your whole body has an extra 2.5cm of something called myofascia. This layer of tissue is like a web that holds your body together, woven through every muscle, organ, bone, artery, and vein in your body. When you build a restriction (ie. knot) in a muscle, this web tightens and you use up your slack.
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