Adding Strength by Subtraction

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You Can Get Significantly Stronger Right Away without picking up a weight by practicing Strength by Subtraction!!

In PowerWire #38, we discussed how muscles accumulate “excess baggage” – Trigger Points throughout the body.
 
In The Ranks System, Strength by Subtraction is Removal of these Trigger Points using 8 Basic Self-Applied Deep Tissue Work Techniques.
 
An immediate benefit of shedding excess Trigger Point baggage is a booster shot of strength!
 
Here’s Why:
3 Elements combine to produce Human Strength:
 
1)      Muscle fiber “ratcheting” motion produces an initial directed force
2)      This force is LEVERAGED through our Hydraulic Core (See PowerWire #8)
3)      Force is Further Leveraged over the body’s spinal and foot ARCHES (See PowerWire #27)
 
OUR strength – our capacity to produce action – depends not on how much muscle we have, but on our muscles’ ABILITY TO MOVE Force precisely from one Point to another!!
Strands of Muscle act like DOMINOES...An intial motion in the calves for example can travel through the body to the hands!!! (*gaining more power along the way as "Work =Force x Distance)
 
 
Therefore, A HUGE OBSTACLE to strength is our MUSCULAR CONSTRICTIONS - the Constriction stops the DOMINO EFFECT!!! This is why a CALF INJURY (See PowerWIre #39) can wreck a baseball swing....
This is also why most bodybuilders can't hit a home run and home hitters do not necessarily look like body builders!!!
 
 
The human form only need be aligned and balanced to move easily and thus be incredibly strong…Subtracting Trigger Points brings back motion & alignment!!!
 
 
 
In The Ranks System, any “Strength by Addition” – i.e. weights, yoga, sprints, etc is sequenced with Strength by Subtraction right away - good math!!
 
Strength by Subtraction is especially powerful at our hips (the body’s gateway to the core!!– SeePowerWire #8))
  • I teach the 8 Strength by Subtraction Techniques at the Older Athlete Flexibility Workshop
  • The Workshop showcases how “freeing” the hip joints –restoring the “rolling” motion of the femur bone inside the socket-like hip bone with Strength by Subtraction - increases power all over the body
 

So Add RanksAcademy to your schedule for Less Pain and More Strength with Strength by Subtraction!!