Daily Maestroism

DM #353

Thursday, May 11th, 2017

DM #353: Absolutely LOVE this one by my dude @mitchhauschildt. Read this caption and then make sure you go and give him a follow. ? Lots of good stuff being dropped by him.
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So, what does this mean? Well, another case of hardware vs software. Yes, there are circumstances where folks have looser/difference connective tissue that causes them to present like gumby. That's hardware. For the rest of us, we're talking about software. Thats what we're working on when we do our little stretching routines.
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This is why you likely have the mobility to fully abduct one leg at a time (i.e. put your leg up on a table as if doing a split) but cannot do them both at the same time as required for an actual split. Try to move with both legs and your nervous system feels that stretch and says “oh hell no!” It's not a structural issue. The mobility is there. It's a software issue. The ability to tolerate that stretching sensation is what's missing.
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So, when we do our mobility work we are imparting a stretching stimulus and telling the nervous system, “it's ok to feel this, you won't die.” This is also why doing things ACTIVELY works so much better. Being active imparts stability as we work on mobility, telling your nervous system that you can in fact control this new range and thus it should grant you that motion AND remember it.
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So, are there some physiological processes going on when we do mobility work? Sure. Are we having a HUGE effect via the nervous system and increasing its tolerance to that sensation? You bet your ?. Software issues. Software solutions. Intervene accordingly.
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