Akimbo from Socor Fitness argues that real strength isn't about lifting heavy weights. It's about coordinated access to your whole body, from feet to spine. He teaches myofascial stretching and joint-opening techniques to decompress the spine and restore posture so your body can self-heal.
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Hey, guys. Akimbo from Socor Fitness here. I want to thank you for your emails. I've been getting a lot of questions recently about being strong. Generally, these people are like later in life. So around, let's say, 50s to 60s, they say, I want to be strong, I want to be in longevity. And prior to talking to me, they thought, okay, I'll get a gym membership, I'll go walk on a treadmill a little bit, I'll do some curls, I'll sit in a machine, I'll do some movements, whatever the case may be. But when I talk to them, when I answered your emails, the whole idea of being strong is having full access to my body. It's not how much can I wait or how many repetitions or how long am I in a gym. If I have full access of my body, then I'm strong. If I can access my feet, my legs, my core and my upper body and I can move it all in conjunction, I can be strong because I have full access. If I have a bad back because my butt sticks out and my head goes forward, my spine's rounded right there, I'm doing curls when I'm trying to get strong. Doesn't make any sense, right? Because you're actually furthering dysfunction. What you want to use is you want to use a program that balances your body. The best I found so far, which is why we use it here, is to use myofascial stretching, Aldoa, as a way to balance the body and open the joints. Myofascial stretching is exactly like it sounds. Mild tissue, the, the fascia, muscular tissue, and the fascia stretching together. We always hear everything's connected, right? It is. It's connected via the fascia. So if I know the fascial connections relative to what muscle I'm using, I can stretch that muscle. Aldoa is to open up joints. So if I have here's L5, here's L4, they're compacted, why have a stretch? I can, I can pull them apart. Three, through an exercise that you do yourself. If I have those two aspects, I'm well on my way to being balanced, AKA strong. We use myofascial stretch in Eldoa here, one of the few in North America that use it. In the program, along with global postural stretching, primal movements, proprioception, awareness, blah, blah, blah, blah. We have a bunch of techniques, but they all fall under the concept of biotensegrity balance. You want to balance your body so it stays strong and it can auto normalize, heal itself. So if you're interested, please reach out and look for the next video. Thank you.
