Daily Maestroism

DM #435

Thursday, November 9th, 2017

DM #435: There's a reason that other thing got tight in the first place.
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Been on a stability kick recently so I figured I'd keep the streak going with tonight's DM. The functional fitness world has done an excellent job of bringing the importance of mobility to the forefront as it relates to being able to perform a movement. But as with all things, the pendulum always swings too far before it comes back to center. Now EVERYTHING has become about mobility. What about the other side of that coin? Stability.
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Two sides of the same coin, my friends. Can't have one without the other. Gotta work on both if you want successful, coordinated movement. When we lose mobility at an area, barring prolonged immobilization or direct trauma, we've lost mobility there because we FIRST lost STABILITY somewhere else. That tightness, that stiffness, that loss of mobility is your body's way of gaining stability. ?
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So, go ahead and “release” (not opening that can of worms now) that “tight” tissue, but you MUST then go and stabilize whatever it is that that “tight” tissue was doing the work for. Remember, things just don't get tight for no reason.
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