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muscle group has fatigued it is important to stop what you are doing and wait for it to return
to its baseline
Avoid Overexertion
Large increases or changes in exercise activity can cause tendonitis tendonosis and delayed
onset muscle soreness You can easily avoid this through more gradual transitions in an exercise
regimen But few people actually do this Instead most change their routine abruptly Or they
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exercise infrequently but overexert themselves when they do Soreness and tendonitis are
conducive to the creation of dormant muscle so avoid them by increasing your training more
gradually Four days of recovery is recommended for individual muscle groups after heavy
training However that doesnt mean you should leave the muscles alone entirely
recommend you replicate the activity that made it sore to get the blood circulating and to
facilitate remodeling Just do so with less intensity and for only a fraction of the time so as not
to impede the healing process
The muscles that feel sore the day after a workout are usually the dormant ones and thus
the ones most in need of massage and antirigidity Use any hints of soreness after a workout to
help you locate your dormant muscle so you can treat it If you wake up sore recommend
taking a baseball knuckle or knuckle tool and percussing the entire body focusing on the
tender areas If you are going to work so hard that you are sore the next day you must rehab
the sore spots Working out until youre sore and then letting the muscles stagnate for days
until the soreness disappears is irresponsible This tells us that our modus operandi should be
exercise massage antirigidity repeat
Dont kill yourself when working out and dont be a weekend warrior Training to complete
exhaustion is training under duress If you are forcing yourself you cannot go into flow and
cannot enjoy the process Training should be addictive but it cant be if you push yourself into
anxiety just to get it done In the long run extreme exertion only wears you down lowers your
mood and leads to injury It is exacting to generate the mental energy to train strenuously but
you should find it easy to generate the mental energy to train moderately
Take a rest after laborious exercise When you come home from the gym dont go right to
cooking dinner and cleaning up You want to reset the tension you created so lie down in
corpse pose for five to minutes while paced breathing and practice progressive muscle
relaxation see Unbracing Exercises and Notice pockets of tension while you are lying
down and attempt to let them go
Often the exercise activity is blamed as the cause of the pain but in many cases the pain is
produced by neglecting to stretch massage and relax after exercise The same goes for those
days when you didnt exercise but engaged in prolonged sitting standing or walking When you
finally get home and collapse feeling stiff and achy youve pushed your tissues too far without
microbreaks or counterposes Proper use of the techniques in the last two chapters can make
the difference between a day that will make you stronger and a day that will make you weaker
Conclusion
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places Ernest Hemingway
When my posture was at its worst lifting weights was so uncomfortable that reached a point
where just couldnt do it anymore badly wanted to build muscle but the pain and frailty
made it so that would just hold the weight in my hand and look at it Like a brokendown plow
horse just stood there and couldnt muster the will to take on the burden had few acute
injuries but was covered in chronic injury took two years off from intense exercise and
instead focused on antirigidity range of motion flexibility low resistance and low impact
The same weightlifting exercises that were drudgery for me now find exhilarating
PROGRAM PEACE Self Care Exercises to Reprogram Your Mind and Body
Here is a list summarizing the primary elements of the Program Peace muscle
rehabilitation method
The Elements of the Muscle Rehabilitation Method
Search for and contract into achiness
Find configurations that crack and bring them to a gentle fatigue
Combine antirigidity and antilaxity with yoga and light weightlifting
Rest limply once fatigue is reached
Be aware of bracing
Use optimal posture
Regularly refresh stagnant muscles using full range of motion
Reposition intermittently to avoid staleness
Use effective counterposes
Massage regularly with compression and percussion
Breathe properly all the while
like the saying pain is weakness leaving the body But it is a halftruth If the pain is
derived from straining it is weakness entering the body If the pain is derived from the ache of
gently transforming dormant muscle into optimal muscle it truly is weakness leaving the body
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Chapter Bullet Points
e Underused muscles need antilaxity and overused muscles need antirigidity
e Dormant muscle tears easily leading to injury
e Perform antirigidity while you perform yoga or while you lift light weights so that you
can get leverage into dormant muscle
e Cardio and weightlifting increase circulation and thereby make subsequent antirigidity
more productive
e Employing antirigidity with exercise releases muscles from deep strain reduces fatigue
and restores strength and endurance
When exercising dont put all your intensity into an invariant form Alter your form
using as many configurations as possible This creates multidimensional strength
e Progress from body weight and very low weight toward heavier weights
e Rest once the first muscle group reaches fatigue
e Focus on debracing and dissipating tension after a set or workout
e It is highly beneficial to perform antirigidity and massage on any muscles that are sore
the day after a workout
e Always exercise using the tenets of optimal posture
PROGRAM PEACE Self Care Exercises to Reprogram Your Mind and Body
Chapter Endnotes
Starrett K Cordoza G Becoming a supple leopard The ultimate guide to
resolving pain preventing injury and optimizing athletic performance Victory Belt Publishing
Starret Cordoza Becoming a supple leopard
Simons D G Travell J G Simons L S Travel Simons myofacial pain
and dysfunction Upper half of body Williams and Wilkins
Chapter Antirigidity for the Neck
and Shoulders
We are all hunchbacks to different degrees Our upper spines are contorted from the strain
involved in carrying the head in front of the body This protruding head posture bends the
lower neck forward and the upper neck backward creating an S shape Over time this results
in anterior head syndrome marked by a bulge in the lower neck that is sometimes called a
dowagers hump or a buffalo hump This is also commonly called nerd neck Before knew
anything about this found my hump very concerning
During my s became preoccupied with the deformed structure of my neck could tell