What are your thoughts on “fascial stretching”?

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Matt Eiden · Answer

I love the detail that goes into fascial stretching. Anyone can kind of hang out at n ranges and feel a stretch and think that they're being productive and it's good to stretch but facial stretching. I just think is so much more productive for the time that you're putting into it having to be there on purpose and doing it with a purpose. I think goes way further than just kind of hitting some stretching to make yourself feel good or make. Yourself feel like you're opening up ranges emotion, but just having to tuck your chin and pull back your fingers and avert and dorsiflex and flatten your belly, whatever it is you're doing, just the detail that goes into the stretching of the faccia and the D cohabitating. And the thought process that that goes on, during all of it, I think is way more productive than just regular stretching.

John Sinclair · Answer

Hi Gina. This is a great question. What are my thoughts on fascial stretching? Well, I'm going to start with this way back when, when you were in physical education class when you were a kid and the facade teacher said, hey, why don't we do? We got to do some stretches for the hamstring and we would bend over and we would get a sensation of what that stretch felt like. Well, we used to think that that we're stretching the muscle but now that we know about fashion and connective tissue, we know that that faster wraps around every muscle. So the I asked back to you is how do we know what we were stretching? We're, we stretching just muscle. Was it the getting Confidence from a person of higher authority, telling us that we were stretching a muscle, or where we already stretching faccia. So this is one of the considerations I take when we talk about, stretching all the time is that we cannot stretch muscle without stretching the fascial system. But here's what's cool about it. Muscle and fashion have Of two different, property are two different makeups so a muscle is primarily made up of elastin the protein elastin so it has a little bit more elastic properties to it but faccia I guess I stole this from my friends at PTA Global Haley Hollander on here. Ian o Dwyer and Scott, Hopson as coaches on here. Also, showed me a really good demonstration of how fascist stretches so fascist made up primarily. Only have collagen and it doesn't have as much elastin in it. So when it stretches, you get about this. But that's a tremendous amount of change in length of that collagen, sends a tremendous amount of communication, through, not only the sensory systems, but has a direct direct communication Network right to the brain. So, when we think about fascial stretching, listen to everything, the other coaches said, because what they said was brilliant. Paul, loved your answer here. What we're stretching is we don't need to stretch it too far. What we need to do is move them. Attic or just a tiny little bit at a time to create some more slow and subtle changes to that tissue. So, very cool points to it. Agree with everything. Paul said, we get a load it three-dimensionally, but remember, the properties of them are different.

Paul Edmondson · Answer

Hi Jana, lovely to virtually meet you last night on the call and all the other strength coaches. It was really awesome to see everyone last night. Great question, what are my thoughts on fascial stretching? So my thoughts are absolutely needs to be considered and trained because the fascial system is that a lens Shone brightly upon in the last 10 years and rightly. So it is our organ of support. It is highly adaptive and it adapts in kind to the rigors that we Put it through in life Sport and task-based activity. So if we sit down all day, it's going to become dehydrated. It's going to become very plastic in nature and it's going to be devoid of tensile strength. So, if we really want to stimulate this organ, and we need to, then we need to be put in specific inputs to make sure that it is robust resilient and well hydrated. So, in terms of stretching, this organ of support, And because it's very highly proprioceptive. I always think it should be done on our feet in a standing environment, nine times out of 10 because life and Sport takes place on our feet. So if we stretch this way the fascial proprioceptors those mechanoreceptors are going to link that input and map it better into our life and Sport more effectively. I believe, I'd also want to consider stretching the fascia in Dynamic qualities rather than static qualities. Because Dynamic, qualities pushes hydrodynamic fluids around the body and it stimulates those collagen links to increase their length over time so that we can adapt get in and out of longer ranges of motion when life and Sport, require us to that Dynamic. Quality should also take place in three planes of motion, because the collagen fibers are laid down and along the lines in which you stress it. So if we stress it in a three-dimensional manner it's gonna withstand better, everything that life and Sport throws at you. And then lastly, once you can do that body weight successfully, I would then want to load that fashion because I want to increase tensile strength and defend against that tissue breaking in yielding because most injuries in the body are connective tissue, not muscle. So there's my thoughts for stretching the special system.

Tim Crowley · Answer

What am I thoughts? On fascial stretching, very specific areas in applications that I'll use with athletes and most typically Runners and triathletes often, you know, Masters will often suffer from some lower leg. You know, calf strains facial issues in the course of a year which really will take them out of training. I see myself have had them on and off for about 20 years. Have really done a lot of work on this area and I find a matter what happens. It takes about four to six weeks of really loaded. Almost no running for it to heal. And so what I've done is you know, we Implement you know some very you know long-duration facial stretches specifically using a an adjustable slant board which seems to work really well in terms of, you know, getting the right tension at there at the right angles. And this is proven to be, you know, pretty effective. And if it could allow the athlete to train consistently without injury and it really, you know, it looking at taking about two minutes after each run or every day, then it's well worth it. Time and effort.

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