Jeff Cavaliere

And now introducing a little bit of flexibility or added flexibility or range because of the stretching I did before, it takes maybe a hole or two or three to match up again

Oh, this is what he's trying to do, that golf swing thing that I remembered again.

Like it's not remembering that every component, like I have to bend my right wrist back 10 degrees and then I have to bend my elbow and I have to break, like your body stores these patterns for motor efficiency.

So, and when I have to start matching up that stored pattern with what's feeling new because of the increased range,

I can impair performance.

And again, it could happen even in a gym workout where you're talking about your first, second set, third set, where maybe the repercussions aren't as big because I'll just do a few extra sets.

But in performance, if you screw up your first three rounds, you're playing on a PGA tour and you shoot, you know, you're six over after three, you're done, you know?

So we relegate that, as I mentioned, sort of towards the end of the day when it's not going to impact performance, but even maybe have the additional benefit of creating the feeling of length or the increase or decrease in resistance to this length at a time when I know my body is going to try to tend to heal and heal shorter, never longer, but heal shorter.

So if I can introduce a little bit of that extra length or decrease resistance to that length, it's a better time to do it.

So I think it promotes a...

a better recovery.

Basically, what's been shown is that when the repair process, muscular repair from, let's say, strength training during the day, the repair process usually results in a muscle that is slightly shorter rather than increased in length.

you know, muscles prefer to sort of ratchet their way down into that contraction.

So when you're sleeping, it tends to err on the side of shorter rather than longer, when ideally we don't really want that.

We want to maintain as much of that length because with more length, we actually have more leverage.

So again, it's just making a conscious choice to do it at a time of the day that makes a little bit more sense.

Dynamic stretching is really not done for that purpose of trying to create any type of increasing the potential length, as you said, of the muscle, but more so the readiness of the muscle to perform.

exploring the ends of that range of motion in a more dynamic way so you're not hanging out there and disrupting that length tension relationship, but just sort of touching the ends of those barriers so that when you feel movement again, it feels looser, it feels more ready.

And obviously at the same time, warming up, blood flow, all the benefits we get from just warming up in general.

So that's the series you've probably seen a bunch of times.