Daniela Meinl Founder, Integral Fascial Yoga Neuenkirchen, Germany Contact Website: Integral Fascial Yoga Upcoming Courses: February 27-28 Daniela Meinl has founded INTEGRAL FASCIAL YOGA and is a leading expert on the topic of the integration of fascia training into Yoga, Pilates and Fitness and has led teacher trainings worldwide for many years. She has been a co-director of …
Master Trainer Monday: Divo G. Müller
Divo G. Müller Body Therapist, Founder, Fascial Pelvic Floor Training München, Germany Contact Website: Somatics Academy Munich Divo is a pioneer in innovative movement programs, author of several books, numerous articles and DVDs. Her last book is available in English: ‘Train your fascia-tone your body’. As a core member of an international group of sport scientists, …
Is Fascia Trainable?
After we have taken a look at what fascias is, it should be about fascia training. But before that, the question remains: Are fascias even trainable? It may seem self-evident to some. But no fact follows from a plausible conceptualization. Leading sports scientists have long debated the topic. With the second CONNECT Congress Ulm on …
What is Fascia?
Fascia, fascia, fascia – many talk about it, they supposedly seem to be good for many things and responsible for various zippers. The fitness industry rolls over with “fascial” offers. But what is fascia anyway? Where are they in the body? What characteristics and tasks do they have? The non-vegetarians/non-vegans among us who pursue the …
Foam Rolling: Self-Massage in Detail
After the first part of the Foam-Rolling series was about the massager itself, the question naturally arises, what you can do with the role. But before we turn to concrete exercises, let’s first take a look at the theory: Foam rolling – how, why, when and when not? And because the post is a little …
Why are We Just Learning About Fascia Now?
It is only within the last 20-30 years that we have the imaging equipment that allows us to look at the fascial system in vivo. For 500 years, surgeons disregarded the fascial system as if it was just filler material.
Building Stronger Fascia
When you do omni-directional sub-maximal loading, you create layers of fascia around muscles and joints that just give it more stability and integrity. When the body senses more stability and integrity around it, it allows higher recruitment patterns, which results in more strength.
The Whole Body System
The muscle-bone concept presented in most of our standard anatomical descriptions gives a purely mechanical model of movement where levers and other things tend to exist. But in reality, there is a seamless picture of integration that is viewed in the living body. What moves joints is not just a muscle and bone concept. It …
Healthy Fascia vs. Dying Fascia
Healthy fascia is rich with bonded water proteins that allow for better shape stability and more dynamism within the tissue. The aging process is a process of dehydration. We want to fortify the issues with your training, but also good nutrition and good hydration strategies, good movement strategies throughout the day to keep this tissue …
Weight Training vs. Isokinetic Training
Studies have shown that the human anatomy has the ability to generate greater force at the end ranges of motion when the muscle is at its shortest length while using isokinetic machines, as compared to traditional weightlifting. When we use traditional weights, mechanical advantage and momentum of the weight play a big role. It’s like …