How to Fight 50 Lions a Day

Douglas Heel
  

• Introduction
• Why do the hamstrings get tight? Why does a structure get tight in the first place?
• When the hamstrings are tight, we need to ask “Whose job are they taking over for?”
• One of the first things the body shuts down is the diaphragm.
• The psoas and glutes are among the most important muscles in the body related to function and performance.
• Because the glutes are so important, when they are not working right, the hamstrings are affected.
• Without dealing with the psoas and the glutes, you cannot help the hamstrings.
• Tight hamstrings are symptoms, not causes.
• What is the affect of compensation on training?
• The thing we don’t have is a reset button that takes us back to default.
• A nightmarish story.
• If you compensate in the gym, you’ll be found out on the field.
• When something is tight, the body is saying, “I’m not safe.”
• Why does performance vary so much from day to day?
• Whatever is in the mind is in the body, and whatever is in the body is in the mind.
• Parasympathetic to sympathetic response.
• Your average day kicks on your sympathetic response many times.
• You’re not even aware how stressed you are.
• How can we help our stressed clients prepare for their workouts and for the day?
• Engaging the diaphragm effectively.
• When you’re stressed, all you see is more and more of the stress.
• When we get into our parasympathetic state, you go from only seeing what’s in front of you to suddenly having the whole world open up for you.
• The fascia of the diaphragm is directly linked into the fascia of the heart.
• The limbic system is the seat of our emotions.
• Education doesn’t merely answer questions, it provokes them.