0:00 - 3:52 - Intro
- What topics we’ve covered on the Podcasts so far and what we’ve been skipping over.
- Healthy Fascia produces High Quality Movement
- Movement extends to Movement Intracellularly, across tissues and across systems
- What we are going to be looking at in todays podcast
3:53 - 9:20 - What are we trying to target when we train the Fascia
- The Most Frequent Touch & The Touch of Greatest Impact are what the Fascia responds to best.
- Measurable Markers for training Musculatue and the Cardiovascular system.
- Try to form a target by which to train the Fascia; increase the Fascia’s capacity to hold Space.
- Defining Fascial Homeostasis
- Fascia allows for Maximum Efficiency in response to Felt Sense & Stimulus
- Summary
9:21 - 11:09 - Every Entry point for the Fascia is designed to funnel towards Fascial Homeostasis.
- Why Niek thinks Fascia is the Tissue that has the greatest impact on Your Health and Life Experience.
- Physical nature is such a strong entry point to the Fascia.
11:10 - 17:22 - The Touch of Greatest Impact
- The touch of greatest impact defined; Physical, Emotional, Psychological and their direct link to the Physical aspect on Your Fascia.
- The Touch of Greatest Impact is always activated until the experience is integrated.
- The higher Your Stress level is the more activated Your Fascial Lines that activated during the “greatest touch” gets activated
- 2 options: Frankenfascia or Integration
- Quick Summary
- How to train with the touch of greatest impact
- Functional Patterns Reference - 1 rep Workout
- Raj Chaudhurri - CCR Synapse reference
17:23 - 24:01 - How training the Touch of greatest impact works
- One way Functional Patterns works
- The Touch of Greatest Impact limits Your bandwidth, Left Hemisphere (LHEM) driven
- How to hack LHEM dominance
- Training this way can set a new Blueprint; training stress state can override stress of Greatest Touch from previous.
- Why a good coach is so necessary; it drives embodiment and integration
- What happens when You have RHEM activation + a stressful state.
- Combination Lock Analogy for Your Body and how You can physically release trauma via fascial training.
- Credit to Naudi and Functional Patterns Coaching
24:02 - 26:52 - Resources
- Functional Patterns - 10 Week Program
- Penelope Eastens Book
- Unity Line Podcast
- Do any one of these with a partner, it helps You get to maximal stress.
- The dangers of goal-orientation during fascial training
26:53 - 32:06 - Training through the Most Frequent Touch
- A bomb vs Metronome consistency Analogy
- This kind of training exists on a spectrum
- The process of training fascia is to move towards alignment.
- You can do this anytime, anywhere.
- Slow train to Integration
- What this kind of training looks like
- What happens when movement starts to get more explosive.
- If You have been moving sub-optimally, You most likely need to create new tissue, on all levels.
- You are creating change every 3 seconds.
32:07 - - How You likely got to Misalignment and where You can apply this type of training.
- Disassociation or Out of Body via Goal-Orientation
- 2 Rules of Thumb: (1) More touches You get = Faster Results (2) It should be mildly uncomfortable
- An assymetrical bosy imbalance will be more uncomfortble than a symmetrical one.
- VVC Hacks, Vagal Tone Training, Periodizing.
36:18 - 37:54 - Summary and Close-Out
- Greatest Touch Summary
- Frequent Touch Summary
- Niek’s Opinion on favoring Fascial change modality
RESOURCES
Unity Line Podcast
Darren Manser - Chats with Choccy Podcast
Functional Patterns 10 week Program
Penelope Easten:- Alexander Technique: The 12 Fundamentals to Integrated Movement
