Why This Program Is So Unique
Unlike conventional methods that focus on simply stretching a muscle, this unique method also trains your muscle survival reflex.
At any given moment, muscle flexibility and muscle contraction is controlled by your brain. Main function of this control mechanism is to prevent muscles from becoming damaged or injured.
This is done by two mechanisms called survival reflexes. Here's a quick example how they work.
When a muscle is stretched beyond its usual, daily range of motion, an impulse from spinal cord is immediately received by the muscle to contract, in order to avoid injury or damage. This stops you from stretching deeper. In science this reflex is called myotatic reflex.
But there is also an opposite reflex call inverse myotatic reflex that protects your muscles from excessive contractions. For example, when you bench press weight that your muscles can't handle, sudden relaxation of muscles activates upon development of excessive tension. The barbell quickly ends on your chest.
You're probably getting the idea already. Since muscular contraction is followed by deep muscle relaxation, this program uses muscular contractions and makes you more and more flexible within one single stretching session and from one session to the next.
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