Is your tissue dead?
I recently received amazing threatment from an osteopathic doctor. This guy threats a bunch of injured athletes and stated that they are all holding excessive tension - their tissue in his words are "dead".
The doctor was not very specific when he talked about the tension he finds, but the trouble with "resting tension" as I know it is 1. Very low levels of tension (contraction) impedes blow flow to an area, and thus negatively affect recovery. 2. Part of the - I think , hypothesis - around tension is that it often involves adhesions between muscle fibres and fascia. These adhesions restricts the shortening of muscle that takes place during contractions. Thus excessive tension literally decreases contractile strength. It may also affect sensory feedback of muscle length and contraction speed. If you want all the nerdy details of muscle contraction, check out something called the "sliding filament theory". :-)
Quite often when we thinking about tension, an oldtime strongman, Maxick, have come to my mind. I don't know if you know of him. He was particularly know for a system called muscle control, which involved flexing and relaxing muscles individually. Part of the benefits of this according to maxick was prevention of muscle binding (the phenomen I described above). Maxick was also incredibly strong and had one of the most beautiful muscular bodies I have ever seen.
Muscle control and massage are key ingredients in keeping excessive tension down. So is shaking your muscles between sets. To learn to move with strength, power and speed check out the amazing program CORE FORCE ENERGY - it's not what you think
- Posted by: Yststrngth
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