Dr. Vonda Wright

Oh, yeah.

No, I spend more time mobilizing, I think, than I do actually training now, just to keep range of motion going and keep the joint capsules open.

And so that's using the heavy resistance bands to distend and distract all the joint capsules to increase range of motion.

Stretching doesn't do that.

Stretching will get to an end point of the muscle to allow you to have more flex in the muscle, but it's not actually stretching in the joint capsule to give you range of motion.

So when we talk about mobility work, we want to get into that full range of motion.

So if you have a stiffening, so as I was saying earlier about the guy and my voodoo flossing, well, voodoo floss is a way where you're creating some blood flow restriction.

Then you go in a range of motion and a blood flow restriction.

You take the voodoo band off and the blood flow comes back and you go in the range of motion, get deeper in that range of motion.

So it's all about accessing the tissues and making the tissues more viable for increased range of motion so that when you go do the lifting, when you go put on a heavier load, you have better control, better range of motion and avoid the small little sticky points that cause injuries.

Micro tears.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So here's why it's important.

What would that look like?

For your shoulder?

I wish I had a rig.

So you can take one of those thick, big bands and wrap it around a rig or something and you can pull and distend.

So you're actually pulling the shoulder out.

Okay.