How important is Fascia stretching?

[Jacob Creutzfeldt]

if you havent tried it then you really cant say what it does or doesnt do. the stretch combined with the flex has added density to all of my body parts and people have noticed. very effective in my opinion.

I can tell you what lots of things do that I have never done. I can tell you how a car engine runs, yet I've never filled myself with gasoline and driven myself down the highway.

I wouldn't doubt that you may get some physiological effect from stretching, but you aren't deforming fascia. I never said the protocol did nothing, I said that the protocol doesn't stretch fascia. If you are concluding that by getting results from stretching, you are deforming fascia I disagree.

 

[Jacob Creutzfeldt]

Of course yogists are skinny........that's not going to do anything in itself. They don't train or eat the way bodybuilders do. so that point is completely irrelevant

the point of it and the theory is that tight or inflexible fascia can deter muscle growth.and given the feedback, its helped alot of people

i also suppose jay cutler has no idea what he's talking about?

Fascia is inflexible. That's why stretching it leads to herniations. You implied in your bodybuilding protocol that this alleged fascial stretching leads to increased muscle size, so in that respect yogis do train like bodybuilders and are generally not muscular.

How do these guys determine that they are stretching their fascia? I would guess in this respect Jay Cuttler doesn't know what he is talking about as I doubt he is physically stretching fascia with movements. If he knows that this stretching protocol specifically leads to fascia deformation, where did he get this answer? I would like to see evidence that stretching in this manner leads to fascia deformation. I'm not asking whether Jay Cuttler has any idea what he's talking about. I'm asking for evidence that fascia is being stretched.

I've seen the results of fascia deformation on muscle shape. It doesn't look cosmetically desirable. The muscle loses it's natural shape and becomes crested and peaked at odd locations.

 

[AAP]

Stretching the fascia doesn't lead directly to muscle growth but it can ALLOW muscle growth to take place. Just the opposite of what a fascia that is too tight will do (inhibit growth)

 

[ceo]

Stretching the fascia doesn't lead directly to muscle growth but it can ALLOW muscle growth to take place. Just the opposite of what a fascia that is too tight will do (inhibit growth)

exactly!

Jacob:
There was a study done about this on birds that showed it was effective (yeah I know, they're birds). There's also a few thousand people doing (or that have done) DC training that would disagree that fascia cannot be stretched (but you obviously know fascia CAN be stretched, because after you told us that it can't be, you said you've seen the results of stretched fascia).

Furthermore, those same few thousand people would also disagree that properly stretched fascia results in deformed muscle shape.

If fascia couldn't be stretched, how would anyone get as big as these 250+lb'ers on stage?

 

[timtim]

Stretching the fascia doesn't lead directly to muscle growth but it can ALLOW muscle growth to take place. Just the opposite of what a fascia that is too tight will do (inhibit growth)

this was exactly my point.