Misc Originals – David Warmke - The Basic Physiology Of Static Stretching (Guitar)

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How do your muscles stretch

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Not something most folks think about

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BUT.... if you two blown out hips and a knee

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You realize them muscles they don’t stretch right

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Hip Hip knee Horry got them all replaced

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Titanium joints even titanium GUITAR STRINGS

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How do I stretch em out get full Dynamic range

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Well First its best to know how it all works

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You got Muscles, bones, ligaments, tendons and connective tissue

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That is called the musculoskeletal system of the body

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Muscles attach to the tendons which attach to the bones

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Joints connect bones to bones with ligaments and joint capsules

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Muscle is composed of many strands fascicles

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Each fascicle of fasciculi which are microscopic bundles of muscle fibers

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Muscle fibers are composed of thread like myofibrils

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These myofibrils contract and lengthen

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The myofibrils are composed of glands called sarcomeres, laid end end

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They are overlapping thin and thick filaments of proteins

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Nerves send electricity the muscles in neuromuscular junctions

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 An electrical signal stimulates the flow of calcium in the muscle causing the sarcomeres to slide 

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When the Sarcomeres shortens the muscle contorts

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When billions of muscles fibers shorten the entire muscle contracts

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Not all fibers contract only the enough to move the load

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When stretched some fibers stretch other remain at rest

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Full stretch happens when the Sarcomeres when all are stretched 

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Now the brain/neural component The muscle spindle records the stretch. 

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It tries to contact to stop it Then the GTO (golgi tendon organ) 

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 makes the brain send a stretch signal when too much muscle tension 

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A double fail safe system, Now Did you get all that

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Remember this is just the basic Physiology

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Do you really think this is all just a lucky accident

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Or we might be designed