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Posture is the outwardly expression of our physical body in this moment.
It’s really the expression of how forces on the body have affected our fascia to create stability in the body.
Poor posture can develop due to injury, one-sided dominance in movement patterns, or compensatory mechanisms that stabilize one side of the body to accommodate the movement of the dominant side. Over time, poor posture can contribute to further dysfunction and pain.
Our protocol to refrain from your normal training routines is based on a strategy to address pain and discomfort related to your movement patterns. Here's a breakdown of why we endorse this approach:
1. Identifying Pain Triggers: The consultation process aims to identify the specific movements or patterns that are contributing to your pain or discomfort. Continuing with these movements could potentially exacerbate the issue or interfere with the treatment plan.
2. Creating New Movement Patterns: Your practitioner is working on correcting and improving your movement patterns to reduce pain and enhance overall function. This involves creating new neurological pathways through targeted exercises or adjustments.
3. Preventing Interference: By temporarily refraining from your usual training routines, you allow the new movement patterns to develop without interference from the old habits. This is similar to the analogy of refraining from certain foods that exacerbate inflammation to allow a treatment plan to work effectively.
4. Optimizing Recovery: The goal is to optimize your recovery and rehabilitation process. This often requires temporarily modifying activities that could hinder progress or aggravate symptoms.
In essence, our recommendation is part of a structured approach to improve your movement patterns and alleviate pain or discomfort. It's intended to support the effectiveness of the treatment plan by ensuring that new, healthier movement habits can take root without being undermined by previous habits that may have contributed to the issue.
Our approach to fitness emphasizes the evolutionary perspective on human physicality, suggesting that our biological makeup is inherently geared towards activities like walking, running, and throwing, which enables a balance between muscularity and cardiovascular fitness. Here are some of the key points and implications to consider:
1. Biological Design and Evolutionary Adaptation: Humans have evolved over millennia with specific physical attributes optimized for activities essential to survival and success, such as hunting and gathering. Our muscles, bone structure, fascia (connective tissue), and cardiovascular system have developed in a way that supports these functions efficiently.
2. Integration of Physical Attributes: Our biological components work together harmoniously to facilitate movements like walking, running, and throwing. This integration implies that our physical capabilities are finely tuned for these specific activities.
3. Training and Biological Compatibility: When individuals engage in activities that align with these evolutionary adaptations (e.g., through exercise routines and movements that replicate walking, running, and throwing), their bodies respond positively. Muscularity and cardiovascular fitness improve not as an adaptation to exercise itself, but rather as a realization of our biological predisposition to perform these movements effectively.
4. Moving as Intended: There is a natural alignment between our physical actions and our evolutionary design. Our training activities are not merely beneficial exercises but rather fundamental expressions of our biological heritage.
5. Implications for Fitness and Well-being: By recognizing and harnessing these inherent physical traits, individuals can potentially achieve higher levels of fitness, health, and overall well-being.
In summary, our perspective underscores the idea that our physical attributes are finely tuned by evolution for specific activities, and aligning our exercise routines with these natural inclinations can optimize fitness and health outcomes. Our approach highlights a perspective that integrates evolutionary biology with modern fitness practices.
Our viewpoint on stretching challenges conventional information that tightness is solely a mobility issue that can be resolved through stretching. Instead, we suggest that continuously stretching muscles in isolation will disrupt the body's natural balance of tension and compression, known as tensegrity. Here are a few points to consider based on our approach to mobility and pain management:
1. Mobility vs. Stability: The common belief is that tight muscles need to be lengthened to improve mobility. However, focusing solely on stretching may overlook the role of stability and the need for balanced muscular activation (agonist and antagonist muscles working together).
2. Tensegrity and Balance: Tensegrity refers to the structural integrity of the body where components are balanced between compression and tension. Continuously stretching one area without considering the overall balance can compromise this structural integrity.
3. Reciprocal Inhibition: When an agonist muscle contracts, its antagonist muscle relaxes to allow effective movement. Constantly stretching a muscle will interfere with this natural balance, potentially leading to altered movement patterns and reduced efficiency.
4. Optimal Movement: Optimal movement involves a coordinated effort of muscles working in harmony. If a muscle is conditioned to be constantly stretched and therefore weakened or inhibited, it will affect overall movement quality and performance.
In essence, our viewpoint challenges the notion that stretching alone is always the solution for muscle tightness or immobility. Our emphasis is on the importance of maintaining balance in muscular tension and considering the body's natural mechanisms for movement and stability, thus eliminating the need to stretch.
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