FLEXIBILITY VS. MOBILITY

Let’s talk FLEXIBILITY vs. MOBILITY.

PASSIVELY stretching muscles, tendons, or ligaments (FLEXIBILITY) creates length in those tissues. But having flexibility in a range does not mean there is CONTROL in that range.

MOBILITY is when you can move through a range of motion ACTIVELY, with control of the tissues that must either lengthen or shorten (contract) in order to create that movement.

You could, for example, create flexibility in your hamstrings. You could spend weeks reaching for your toes, getting your torso closer and closer to your thighs by stretching those muscles on the backs of your legs.

BUT, what happens if you were to slip on something, and one of your legs slides out in front of you into a position where those hamstrings are on stretch??

You've trained to allow that hamstring to lengthen, so it probably will. However, if you haven't yet had the chance to train that hamstring to contract in the lengthened range, you may very well experience a pull or tearing of tissue and find yourself injured.

THE NEXT LOGICAL QUESTION:

What if you DID train in those ranges? What if you learned how to contract and BUILD CONTROL? What if you had a way to assess your PASSIVE RANGE in a given joint, and then your ACTIVE RANGE in said joint, and TRAIN TO CLOSE THE GAP between the two?

We talk about all this and more in KINSTRETCH. More range. More control. Less injury.

Sundays 12p
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays 9a
Thursdays 6:15p

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