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DM #395

Thursday, June 22nd, 2017

DM #395: Unless your leg has been amputated or your spinal cord has been severed…your glutes ARE firing. They might be underperforming, but I assure you, they are firing.
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I'm all about the importance of word choice, and making certain not to create thought viruses. When we tell our clients/patients that something isn't firing, they literally think that there is zero contraction going on at that tissue and that outside of ? dust or perhaps jumpstarting it with a car, ain't nothing going to get it “firing” again.
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Just because you can't feel something contracting doesn't mean it's not firing. ? What we should be telling these folks is that those tissues are underperforming as it relates to that movement pattern. This means that something else has to pick up the slack, and is typically what leads to hypertrophy of those other areas despite our efforts to grow the ? or our calves, or in some cases, the onset of pain.
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So, what to do about it? Pick the most dysfunctional movement pattern that involves that “muscle” that isn't “firing”, figure out what “muscles” are working instead, change the position so the nervous system feels safe, use some RockTape if needed to help with tactile neurosensory cuing, and have that person MOVE in a way that targets the underperforming group and decreases the likelihood of compensation by the over-performing group.
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From there it's all about appropriate progressions, repetition, and TIME! If you don't “feel” your glutes when you squat, the answer isn't to do more squats. Assess, don't guess, then regress to progress.
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