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    How to Bulletproof Your Fascia

    How to Bulletproof Your Fascia

    This blog was written for Living Bulletproof in Australia: See the original here In the Bulletproof community, we know about the important properties of collagen–the most abundant protein in the human body. We know what to eat (and what to avoid) to create healthy collagen. But do you know how to move to build resilient collagen and increase performance? Collagen makes up one third of the protein found in our bodies and is most commonly found in the skin, bones and fascia. Fa
    Don't Get Stuck That Way! Variety is Key

    Don't Get Stuck That Way! Variety is Key

    The more you repeat certain body positions, expressions or even thought patterns, the more you get stuck with them. You only have to look at wrinkles to see the proof of how repetitive expressions, create wrinkles on the face. It's the same with your body and your mind. Remember when you were little and your mum told you to stop making 'that face' or you'll get STUCK that way? Well, it's got some truth to it! Our modern lifestyle leads us to repeat certain positions. We have
    Fascial Fitness

    Fascial Fitness

    Fascia or connective tissue gets laid down in the line of stress (Davis’s Law.) The tighter we allow ourselves to get, the thicker and denser the fascia becomes in the areas of stress. When fascia is dehydrated and static, it gets gluey which is a big problem for the body. So if the fascia around the shoulder starts to get gluey like in this picture, it may cause problems elsewhere. Why is that bad? Tension relationships that are pulling other parts of the body around, begin
    How Heavy Is Your Posture Making Your Head?

    How Heavy Is Your Posture Making Your Head?

    It's no secret that many of us are losing the battle with gravity, and shrinking forward into bad posture. It's difficult to avoid leaning forward these days with mobile phones, computer workstations, too much sitting, and stress. As we slink forward into a kyphotic, hunched over posture (top right) many people suffer from headaches, migraines, neck, jaw or shoulder pain and fatigue. Forward head postures, or 'Poke neck' aren't just a structural issue for the body. Aside from
    Fascial Lines Don't Need Stretching

    Fascial Lines Don't Need Stretching

    The Fascial Web Myofascial lines need be effective as a whole, with other lines, and with the neighboring layers of tissue. You cannot isolate a line of tissue, nor a specific region or part, and certainly the body doesn't function that way. Instead our body aims for rhythmical communication through it's entirety. Our body is a tensegrity system, meaning that our compression structures (bones) are held together with tensional guide wire system of muscle, ligaments, tendons an
    Powerplate Vibration for pelvic and visceral health

    Powerplate Vibration for pelvic and visceral health

    This position is deceiving – it looks simply like something nice and cushy, a feel good gimmick. In actual fact, this machine, and this position is a powerful healer for the body. This is such a great tool for releasing tension in the delicate deep soft tissues in the front of our bodies. We rarely get our stomachs massaged, let alone the fascially rich areas of the pelvic floor, pubis and inner thigh. It's our soft under belly that we protect, and often hold in tight without
    Foam rolling, we mean dragging!

    Foam rolling, we mean dragging!

    We don't roll anymore, and neither should you. If you want more global change, less pain, and better fascial health we recommend DRAGGING. How do you do it? Apply the foam roller on any part of the tissue you want to change (best done around bony areas where you can affect multiple fascial lines - thanks OD!) and drag across the direction of the tissue, rather than rolling along up and down it. With dragging you need less pressure, and the ability to tune in to how the tissue
    You can’t ‘stretch’ a knot out of your connective tissue!

    You can’t ‘stretch’ a knot out of your connective tissue!

    Your body has a web like structure of elastic fascial tissue, that connects the dots between EVERYTHING. From toes to nose, skin, tendons, muscles and organs, fascia connects and encases the lot. If the fascial system starts to get knotted up, stretching just won't cut it. Pulling on a knot, just tightens the knot further and makes it harder to get out in the end. In order to get lasting change and reduce the knot, we need to do 3 things: 1. We need to first stop chasing the
    How your fascia can make you look shorter and fatter than you actually are

    How your fascia can make you look shorter and fatter than you actually are

    This picture demonstrates some dramatic changes in a young girl that have occurred simply by addressing tension relationships in her fascia. This before and after picture is dramatic, and can't be attributed to her simply standing taller, strengthening her 'weak' muscles, or sucking in her belly. The changes you see here, are thanks to Structural Integration, a form of manual therapy that endeavors to stack the body, and enhance alignment through manipulation of connective ti
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