This is important, because feeling less pain, and becoming more mobile can only be achieved by practicing different types mobility/flexibility techniques. The most important techniques that will be covered in depth through this program include...
Here is what each of these are, and why they are TREMENDOUSLY important when it comes to increasing your flexibility, and decreasing pain in your body...
We focus on Foam Rolling the top 5 areas of your body that are going to help you move better, feel more flexible, and feel less pain and/or stiffness. We are trying to increase blood flow to muscles that aren't very active and release tension and adhesions through areas that are over-active and stressed.
We develop Adhesions or “knots” through our fascia (think about a snuggie that covers our muscles). Adhesions are a common cause of muscular pain in the body. Adhesions occur when our fascia sticks together. This can be a problem because fascia surrounds every muscle and muscle fiber, and when it sticks together it can make it hard or impossible for muscles to move the way they want to.
This is a HUGE PROBLEM because This WILL cause a lot of issues, especially creating compensation patterns and throwing off our movements + poor posture, equaling pain and most likely, long term injury.
It's TREMENDOUSLY important that foam rolling be implemented in a flexibility routine, because if we don't work on these knots, our muscles won't be able to move properly.
Next, we proceed to focus on Dynamic Stretching through a dynamic warmup - Dynamic Warmup is the perfect way to warm up your body before engaging in just about any type of program, although, you can use it by itself as a workout if you aren't used to it!
DYNAMIC WARM-UP ROUTINE: ELEVEN moves that put an emphasis on mobilizing your ENTIRE body. After performing this dynamic warm-up, you will feel flexible, warmed up, and engaged in muscles that you didn't know existed.
With a good dynamic warm-up, you will get your body/core temperature up, stretch all the important muscles in your body, mobilize the important muscles in your body, and set your body up for success when it comes to your normal routine.
Essentially, we are priming your body to work efficiently. Without a dynamic warm-up process, it is common to feel “stiff” or “restricted” or “tight” during our workouts, or on a day to day basis. Dynamic Flexibility is an extremely important, and overlooked aspect of flexibility training. There is a reason that EVERY SINGLE sports team has their athletes using dynamic warm-ups to prime their athletes for success.
This routine is best used after you've completed your workout and/or after completing your foam rolling, and dynamic warm-up. Static stretching before a workout has long been the standard for many individuals, but there's plenty of research to suggest that it's not what you should be doing. You aren't actually engaging or “warming up” the muscles at all. Also, its difficult to stretch a muscle that's cold or immobilized. That's why we engaged in Foam rolling, and a Dynamic warm up in the beginning of our workout.
We focus on 5 static stretches that are most important when It comes to decreasing knee, hip, and shoulder pain, as well as opening up your body, and establishing better posture.
Remember, this isn't a one time fix. This is something that you will need to put some effort into. Chances are, if you've read this far, you are ready to start working towards feeling more flexible, more mobile, and feeling less stiffness and/or pain through your body. Once you learn these key flexibility protocols, I PROMISE that you'll start to feel incredible. All it takes is you putting in some of the work. Hey, nothing in this life is great unless you worked for it, right?
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