STRETCHING HONESTLY SHOULDN’T FEEL GREAT

When you get a quality deep stretch to a muscle that actually need a stretch, it’s not very pleasant. When you get that ripping sensation in your hip flexors when you learn proper lumbopelvic positioning, it really does suck.

Muscles that don’t need to be stretched tend to feel nice to stretch.

That pleasant “ahh that feels good” stretch. Now there is nothing wrong with it, but if we’re looking for root issue problem solving, that “ahh” feeling is an indication that muscle needs activation and strengthening, not stretching.

Now that we’ve gotten a bit of stretching principles out of the way, let’s get to why we need stretching, and what’s resisted stretching?

Remember from phase 1, we talked about neurological tightness vs mechanical tightness?

Mechanical tightness needs stretching. Neurological tightness needs strengthening (or resisted stretching). How do we determine our tightness type? Book your free eval and we can walk your through it.

Assisted Stretching is us helping you get to a deeper stretch helping you to maintain origin and insertion neutrality to limit the compensation.

Resisted Stretching is neuromuscular stretching to get your brain to decrease tone outlined in phase 1. It’s a combination of contracting and relaxing.

Stretching should be an uncomfortable conversation between you and your body, not a forceful argument.