For Athletes Struggling With Tension

When you get overly tight as an athlete is when you’re in survival mode

Like whatever it is that you’re facing is big enough that “everything contracts” and the only thing you care about is that you “do it”

You do not care about how you do it

Example would be sniffing some “big sniff” - no idea what that is, just made it up - and then losing all consciousness while you proceed to go ahead and pull down harder than you ever have before

Great

What I’m proposing is if we want to be able to repeat those outputs

If we want to be able to do them over and over and over

Then you need to be able to stay aware during them and have control while doing them so “everything” is not working against “everything” and you feel blasted for the next 3 days after

Which is what the focus was here, in this session

If i can use my hammies, on the wall sit, to pull in - and at the same time legit lengthen the quads - to where they aren’t simply isometrically contracting against each other, but are actually moving - that means the quad will never actually fatigue in the wall sit position cause it’s always lengthening

Great

We take that into the throwing example

If you can stay fully aware and use your tissues in that manner, but applied to the rest of your body:

Lat does what it’s supposed to do, pec does what it’s supposed to do, rotator cuff muscles do what they are supposed to do - the side that is supposed to shorten does, and the side that is supposed to lengthen does as well…

Then the proposition is that you now have control over that output and can repeat it as much as you want

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Where work and output help you and better you

Not tear you down and fatigue you

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