fascia inside the muscle.
Fascia has properties that are really important in training.
But fascia is something I learned and how important it is when you're thinking about flexibility.
Now fascia builds slower than muscle.
the fascia intact.
But fascia emerges in embryonic development earlier than this, at about two weeks.
So fascia researchers suggest that muscles, bones, organs, in fact all other living tissue,
Your fascia hasn't had a chance to remodel.
Your fascial system-- and we're going to go into that in a minute-- is made by cells.
There's fascia around the bones, there's fascia around and in the cartilage, there's fascia around your organs.
Now you see the fascia as a system.
Your feeling your fascia six times more than your muscles.
But because fascia is the context for everything else, it's really hard to take everything else out and leave
It's not that fascia is more important than anything else.
Your breasts are fascia , full of lots of fat cells.
So you keep your fascia healthy by moving.
This is fascia specific.
The interoceptors in your fascia help you feel that subtle change in your posture that happens because of your tail space.
It primes your fascia for the day ahead.
But the fascial system is a great big unitary net that goes all over your body.
and looking at the fascial sheets that are left.
So your fascial system is your meta-membrane.
But this is fascial plasticity.
Everything in the fascial system is interconnected and fluid, and you can feel this when you breathe.
You can learn about fascial fitness.
So you're seeing the fascia profundus, which is the fascia lata, which is a thin sheet that goes around all the muscles and squeezes in on them.
So there's layers of fascia .
Any of those things can make this fascia stick together.
This is the only film of living fascia that we have made by a French surgeon, Jean-Claude Guimberteau.
So if you start thinking about the fascia in a dynamic way this way and thinking about the fascial system in this kind
But the first research conference about fascia , the fascia congress, wasn't held until 2006.
So there are three main constituents of fascia .
A lot of different textures fascia can assume.
Stress and immobility dehydrates your fascia .
Whole body stretches are good for the fascia , so that pandiculation that we did before.
That's a little tiny slip of fascia between your anal sphincter and your coccyx.
And micromovements are good for your fascia .
And sitting is particularly detrimental for fascia .
He's also one of the foremost fascia researchers.
So what you want in those fascial layers is that they slide and glide easily on each other.
And you don't see those fascial adhesions here.
And so if you look at the fascial system, the things that you could take away from it-- I would say it's alive, but I put that separately
You can't get the fascial system to build up as fast as a muscle.
So that beats up your fascial system, your muscular system, your tendons, and your joints.
And I'm going to spend about 15 minutes on fascia as a system because the new way of thinking about movement is dependent on understanding this new system.
You just picked up the first layer of fascia .
You have six times more endings in your fascia than you do in your muscles on average.
So what we've discovered is that the fascia is viscous, like you see on the screen, but also elastic, as you see here.
We start to see the relationship between the fascia and the bones as being one where the bones are floating inside a balanced set of fascial pulls.
But trainers are looking for that green idea of building the fascia .