Show Notes
In this episode of the Movement Logic Podcast, Laurel explores whether you can train fascia, separating myths from facts about this connective tissue. She discusses her personal journey with fascia-focused methods, including self-massage and Yoga Tune Up, and questions commonly held beliefs about fascia adaptation from exercise. Laurel critiques the metaphorical narratives versus physiological mechanisms, examining the roles of muscle, tendon, and the nervous system in recovery and training. She concludes with insights on why calling it "fascia training" might be more about branding than science.
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00:00 Can you train fascia? 02:26 Personal story 10:39 Questioning what I'd been taught about fascia 12:02 Fascia as values, worldview, group identity 16:04 How did we get here – fascia research congress 16:48 The reductionism that arose out of rejecting reductionism 18:02 The problem with overpromising around significance of fascia or training fascia 18:59 Blurring metaphor and mechanism 23:24 What is fascia? 24:03 Massage mostly stimulates skin 24:29 Deep fascia and tendons are different 25:18 Fascia not great at force transfer 26:39 Visceral massage 27:04 Training fascia is not what trains proprioception – motor learning is 28:14 What makes a tissue trainable? 33:42 Difference between general and specific training 38:22 Adhesions, trigger points, scar tissue, fibrosis 40:51 Hydrating fascia 42:35 Circulation improvements 58:19 Wrapping it up
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