A
ll right, so you’re a man. You’ve read so much and heard so much about being physically active, that, de- spite the pressures to work long hours, or multiple jobs – or even one long, intense job – you’ve made the time to work out. You joined the Y, you found a health club that suits you, or you get your workout by mowing, weeding, digging, planting in your yard. But, you’re dedicated. You do it with some regularity and give yourself a hard time when you don’t. Days, weeks go by – winter into spring, spring into summer. Strength grows, recovery time shortens, breathing’s a little easier. Life should be better, right? And it is, it is, and yet, that pain in your right lower back you thought you’d work through
still
let’s just say you’re feeling more than irritated, which has its out- working with your wife, your kids, maybe your boss or clients. And, it’s definitely getting worse – hangs around a little longer now, goes a little deeper, affects other muscles and muscle groups. So, you push a little harder,
farther; open up the move wider and deeper – doing the same thing
over and over, with more effort, hoping for different results. What’s wrong with this picture? Why
with a similar
The Physically Active Man:
hangs there, ready to take the fun out of each workout. In fact, you’re even antici- pating it now, looking for it to raise its ugly head to help make your day. It’s so familiar, that pain, that there’s a kind of missing on the rare days it doesn’t manifest. Funny thing, too – there’s a pain in the back of your neck that shows up
regularity – worse on damp, chilly days. You remember – vaguely – doing something that might’ve caused the back pain, but that really doesn’t help ease it any, and, in fact, it’s getting worse. OK, some days it’s better, but other days, well,
isn’t this clearing up? You’re doing what you’re supposed to do, right? Push through the pain until you get to the other side. It’s worked before, why not this time? It’s worked before because
Pain That Won’t Go Away
you were pushing through muscle fatigue, building resil- ience, recovery, strength in the process. It doesn’t work now
because you’re working against program- ming that you have no access to via the “push-through” approach. There’s been an injury – no matter that you don’t remember it, or that it happened a long time ago, when you were much younger. Something traumatic happened to the
muscle/fascia network somewhere in your body, something that registered in the fascial grid that inhibits the ability of spe- cific individual muscle fibers to do what they’re designed to do, which is lengthen and shorten on demand, in relation to the millions of other such fibers throughout the musculature of the body.
How’s that work? Okay, toss a football. Assuming right- handedness on your part, (lefties, switch the terms) the right arm, with the hand gripping the football, cocks – draws back behind your head – while the left arm extends, generally with the hand and fin- gers pointing straight ahead. The torso twists to the right, again, a cocking motion to gather energy. Your right arm snaps
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