An interesting read on Kit Laughlin forum

Interesting stuff about stretching, fascia and difference between tendon generated strength and muscle generated strength.

Does anyone know who the admin guy writing the second post is?

http://kitlaughlin.com/forums/index.php?/topic/308-fascia-and-stretching/

Helander said:

 

Does anyone know who the admin guy writing the second post is?

 

It looks like Kit. The writing style looks the same as other posts, and the birthday on the admin profile is the same as the one on Kit's personal profile.

Interesting, particularly the part on agonist-antagonist (CRAC) stretching which was new to me:

http://www.massagetoday.com/mpacms/mt/article.php?id=14320

I've got to try this for my pike work, it looks like there may be good active flexibility gains to be made through this method. I really need to be able to close the pike in HLL, it is THE main weakness in my Foundation training.

Any of you guys have experience with applying CRAC specifically to pike stretching?

Helander said:

Interesting stuff about stretching, fascia and difference between tendon generated strength and muscle generated strength.

Wait wait wait.  You can generate strength with your tendons?

Bipocni said:

Wait wait wait.  You can generate strength with your tendons?

Calm down. The post discusses energy stored in tendons (think skipping) versus muscle work (think calf raises).

Ravn said:

Calm down. The post discusses energy stored in tendons (think skipping) versus muscle work (think calf raises).

Well, when you put it that way it seems obvious... 

Sorry about the a bit misleading intro, I tried to make it sound as epic as possible

More of a lose-as-little-as-possible than an add-as-much-as-possible