Everyone IGNORES Fascia When Stretching

Discover 9 fascinating facts about fascia, one of the most ignored parts of the body!

there are nine things I’m going to talk about today about fascia that will literally blow your mind now I went through a lot of training on the body anatomy physiology when we talked about fascia it was this extra passive tissue you know like bubble wrap that just packs certain things fascia is the Matrix or the material that surrounds every muscle in the body like let me just give you an example we take this weight for example and I start lifting it like this right for about I don’t know 20 times I’m gonna get tired right I’m using a lot of energy when I’m doing this now if we attach some fossil tissue to the weight okay and do that I’m still lifting the weight but I’m using a lot less energy because I’m using the free energy from the elastic band that gives you a lot of transfer of energy running jumping Etc is not just about contraction and relaxation of muscles it’s about the loading of the tendons and ligaments and fascia and then releasing it fascia gives you your posture I mean you ever see people when they get older like some people literally are looking straight down when they’re walking and that could have been totally prevented if they understood how to keep the fascia healthy and repair it which I’m going to tell you at the end of this video fascia also gives you your body shape FASA also has similar properties to liquid crystals in those like digital TVs it has these repeating patterns of similar type shapes that have the ability to change and adapt to the environment the little cells that make fascia or collagen are called fibroblasts and these little cells are like little spiders that can migrate they can move through your body and you have millions of them all over the place and they’re basically laying down this it’s called Ground substance to allow for lubrication and movement and the next one is they are highly involved with the immune system this is why our fascia can be sore as in fibromyalgia and planer fasciitis and over time that injury becomes an inhesion so this is why uh my fascial release and other techniques massage and trigger point therapy are all really important especially if you had injuries now when you stop moving the collagen is going to get sticky it’s going to get stiff and the fascia is going to fuse together and stiffen and when you start moving that tissue it’s not going to let you move it’s going to be very restricted and maybe in your mind you might think oh wow I have a tight muscle no you don’t you have tight fascia and fascia is also connected from head to toe and so knowing this really helped me understand why certain techniques worked when I was in practice for example when people would come in and have injuries on their tailbone I found the best relief I can give them is by working on the back of the neck the oxa put releasing the oxa put seems to help tailbone injuries now why would that work because of fascia it’s all connected I’m basically taking this fascia and making it longer so there’s more space another example would be people that had uh problems with their shoulder they couldn’t Elevate the shoulder I would have them lay face down and if they had a restriction on the left shoulder I would work on the right calf and achilles tendon and that always seemed to open up the shoulder why is that because the fascia on the right lower part of your body is connected to the left shoulder another example would be people that had right shoulder pain through here I would work on the gall letter area now in the past I would talk about the frenic nerve being involved which is probably true but I think also all the fascia that surround that frenic nerve that go all the way up into the third cervical vertebrae through here with all the different fascia attachments so as I loosened this part up it freed up this part fascia is extremely inated by little tiny nerves that allows the body to know where it is in space and this is why the fos is very important for balance coordination and it has this amazing ability to be able to change its material properties it can go from being very rigid to very elastic if you sit all day and don’t move at all the environmental message is don’t adapt just get tight and hold the person in that position so you see this in the nursing homes a lot with people in this one position like all day sitting they body just grows like that it’s in communication with your environment unless you get an injury in other words when you start walking or moving now things have changed because we had that injury and now you’re guarding a little bit on one side of your body so the secret to restoring fascia has to do with adding Dynamic motions from different directions so it’s not just the same motion over over and over and over again I remember in my 30s the only exercise that I did I mean it was just biking over and over and over and over my soaz muscles which are the hip flexors became so tight because I was doing that same motion over and over and over again I’m going to put the videos that I’m personally doing down below but there’s many more that you can find I want to give you the general principles of what to do another thing that I’m adding to this program is high doses of of vitamin D3 I’m doing 50,000 IUS every single day if you’re ever going to do a similar thing with vitamin D you want to make sure you take the co-actors vitamin K2 and magnesium and zinc and B6 and that way you can prevent any problems that may come up from taking high doses of vitamin D and if you want more information about vitamin D and the co-actors you should watch this video right here