The information I was looking for 👍🏻 - stay well hydrated - ball & foam rolling to release tensions - PNF stretching - meditation focusing on tension release - training mobility to increase the global range of motion

I love it when you talk about stuff that's overlooked most of the time in the fitness industry, like taking care of tendon development because its slower growth rate and this

you have crammed so much valuable info into this video, I kept having to rewind and will need to watch it again and again. Thank you so much for being so generous.

Another great video. The content and quality are always so high. You really tackle the important issues that the mainstream media gloss over. Cutting edge as always. Thank you.

I was doing many of these actions and excercises already, but finding your video made me a clear vision of where I want to go on this road, filled with breathing techniques (f.e. Wim Hof method, Warrior breathing) cold therapy, and EVERYTHING you were showing in this video! Thank You very much for this upload! I wish you the best (And of course I immediately subscribe to your channel)

Good job as always, my man! Your thoroughness and attention to detail are much appreciated. Thank you much!

I suffer with severe Parsonage Turner syndrome and my fascia are atrophied but I'm healing. This video made so much sense. Thanks for the info, I'm inspired to get stronger ✌

Thank you. I’m aTrainer with a Senior Fitness Specialist Certification, teaching group classes to 75-96 yr olds. I have been incorporating fascia massage (using a tennis ball) as much as possible- as they are seated during classes. Not only do they enjoy this, I think it sets a right mindset before I start with light weight endurance training. I wish more PT’s not only knew about this but incorporated it as well. Maybe this video will help. (Just subscribed!)

Wow dude I've always wanted to study how to strengthen anything other then our bones and muscles and I just came across your channel. Perfect.

Another awesome video, Adam!! An essential and relevant topic, mate. Well done. 👍

As a Licensed Massage Therapist, I am so glad you talked about facia! I do MFR on my clients and have great and immediate results. They keep coming back!

My fascia has been unwinding this whole week, i apparently triggered it myself from yoga routine. Thanks for this video that explains the almost mystical experience i have been having.

Brings new mental Awareness for sure on this Fascia!!! Seeing how i have some chronic pain in left knee and going into surgery June 26th on Complete Torn ACL on Right knee. So I'm deffinitly going to do my research on Fascia and put it all into my Rehab in Physical Therapy Post Surgery

Superb videos, and the way you present yourself makes you come across as a very knowledgeable teacher who can be trusted. I am currently going through my gym instructing + personal training, but the literature is a bit rubbish. Listening to your video's at the same time makes me feel like I'm advancing beyond anything they can teach me

Thank you. I am getting ready to take the NASM Personal training final. I was having trouble fully understanding Fascia. Brilliant. Thank you Thank YOU. I will be checking out all your videos. And I’m gonna be watching how the science on Fascia progresses.

Excellent! and Thank you! I hope you follow-up with more on this topic-- specifically more on how to rebuild old, dry fascia years after trauma.

Yes meditation/focus scanning the body works well for releasing the fascia tension. I do this almost daily as I have a lot of back / shoulder cramps from sitting at my desk all day!

I'm digging these type of informative videos. I've started impelementing some of the tips from your videos in my workout routine and noticed significant advancements. Good job.

In Chinese medicine the fascia corresponds to the body's meridians. They use accupuncture to manipulate these communication pathways in the body to heal and restructure imbalances, similarly, but different from massage or chiropractic treatment. This is old news to most of the ancient world! Just like beans and grains should all be fermented (miso, natto, traditional Mexican practice of making tortillas, fermented rice, etc). And yet, here we are with our science discovering all this (: gotta love how arrogant we are here in the developed world... Nice post. Glad to see this.

Bro your energy in this video is amazing!! Dope! Already a major fan oof your content! 🔥🔥😤

I’m not sure if this was mentioned to you and I don’t feel like going through all the comments to look but look into Fascial Stretch Therapy, this technique has changed my life.

i love your videos they’re so informing and helpful, hope you’re doing well!

This is actually a VERY good video. Thanks for creating it and sharing it

Well I learned something new today!! Thanks for the lesson!! The body is such a beautiful gift

Using reflexology as part of Massage really helps my clients, I’ve seen the link between tightness in feet (and hand) affecting all the way up the body, I believed it was for energetic reasons but the link with fascia and meridians is interesting. Thank you.

I must thank you to bring us this video about fascia. The presentation of fascia here made me realize just how the "Conscious Relaxation" of a specific point of the body will permit the loosening of the contracted muscle or organ (contractions made unconsciously which subsist) through the brain signals or "loosening orders" of the central nervous system (parasympathetic system over syspathetic system). Such mechanism will work in foam rolling, massage, trigger point therapy, and may very well be under the Qi Gong, Acupressure or Acupuncture systems (as conscious atention on specific places of the body/fascia pared with the relaxation desire will loose them and permit the free flowing of electrical brain signals promoting health and strength (any body function or contraction will be as much efficient as his before action relaxation state - water is also important as it is a great electrical medium). I had before thought about using the "Conscious Relaxation" mechanism to aid in the solving of even psychological trauma, because as we know traumatic memories bring automatic body contractions and if people consciously remember this memories while consciously willing to relax entirely then the memories effect will subside on their bodies and free themselves from them (it may also result with any chronic pain and even aid in any mind-body prison like in any addiction - using the mind to free the body and the body to free the mind = electrical freedom/full body integration). The stronger the brain signal (gama waves produced by the arnessing of all the brain functions - imagination, linguistic, numerical, touch, sight, earing, body perception, and the other senses and brain functions) the stronger the order to execute a task (like lifting an object) or with training the stronger the body electromagnetic field (which energy can be harnessed and even projected to something or even aid in the healing of someone - electrons transfering from body to body).

I can't believe I wasn't subscribed to you. lol. Awesome video man, keep up the amazing work!

Thank You So Much for this video ... this has helped me in so many ways... with severe back spasms. 👍🏼💪💞

Thank you so much for this video . Really clear and straightforward explanation

I have opened the Pandora’s box of self fascial unwinding using stretching and gravity itself. I have discovered SO much kinetic wisdom within my body that I am nearly an expert on correcting imbalances. Using mental analogies to design strategies to create symmetry and integration. Greatest hobby ever.

great video but still missing subtitles. it could bring your channel to another level. thank you for your job and congratulations for your knowledge. good luck and take care.

Great Post Bioneer!

Great video as usual. You didn't mention the impact of stress on the fascia? I think this is the true benefit of meditation, if fascia is holding everything in place then surely stress is tightening its grip, the tighter the fascia the less mobility, the less mobility the more stress as we're having to find less active ways to entertain ourselves, which usually means via technology, and as most things technological involve stress this would compound the problem till eventually we're hunched over a walking frame moving at 1 km an hour staring at the ground. If there are old people like that now who didn't grow up with phones, tablets and computers, I suspect this will be common place in decades to come. PS best way I've found to stay stress free is to avoid relationships and jobs I'm not happy in. Learning to be self sufficient meant not staying in damaging relationships and jobs i counldnt afford to leave. Of course becoming financially self sufficient takes time as does self reliance, but if you don't aim for it won't happen, ever, success in anything never comes by accident. Keep up the good work buddy, love what you're doing for the world 😉

I love this guy ! He is highly educated and does his research !

Really enjoyed this informative video! I will definitely take your advice!💟

Hey thanks for getting into this as it heavily related to the felxability information I requested.

As a simple Irishman, it just makes sense to keep moving in a non-repetitive manner. Up. Down. Left. Right. Forward. Backward. Sideways. Repetitive motion injuries are the bane of the existence of many office workers who sit in the same position and use their bodies (mostly the dominant hand) in a very limited way. The computer mouse is really a monster. My neck and right shoulder are a wreck when I finally retired.

I'm guessing I'm breaching etiquette a little bit by recommending a different youtube video on someone's channel, but it's a great follow up for this video. It's called "Strolling Under the Skin." Truly incredible.

Amazing channel indeed, your videos are some fine example of how the internet kills television, informative, interesting and well made content and all that in the topic of how we can further improve ourselves by working with our biology. What more can a man ask for? :)

Bioneer: your fitness and agility are phenomenal! A delight to watch your pistol squats and those high knees and then jump across the box thing!

This brings to mind an old strongman by the name of maxick. He believed that learning to contract and relax the muscles as individually as possible garunteed more strength and athleticism as it taught you to contract the proper ones for the movement and relax the others thereby allowing you to apply the right force with the essential muscles and avoid injury though using unnecessary ones. He could control his own to the point that he could contract each individual ab in time with music. Alternating as he went. You can find a pdf of his book about it online for free download.

Great video. Well done. Thanks.

The advice I was looking for -Make a time segment to really work your multivarious fascia. And that's all I needed to know forrr now.

Boom right on time!! pretty uncanny, was doing my evening foam rolling and stretching session when your video on the Muscle Fascia pops up. Can't get more relevant than that!! Great stuff Bioneer!!

For the fascia, and other benefits, I like to do the eight brocades of qigong.

Nice informative and BALANCED video about fascia.

You have great content bro. I'm a personal trainer and come to your videos for new info alot. I've always wondered about tendon/ collagen tissue and it's relationship with athletic performance. It seems that the most athletic bodies seem to have lean musculature and yet they can run and jump like cats. It would make sense that a rubber balloon-like organ is covering and controlling the muscles. I know you can activate the thoracolumbar fascia to brace your lower back for heavy lifting. I'll have to look more into the 5 chains you mentioned as well as body scan meditation. Thanks for the video!

Great science. Excellent presentation.

You're always coming up with gold man-I resp3ct you and your channel much more than many others;Thanx again for a great video!!

I absolutely loved this! Thank you for sharing..I have found that people really enjoy the ball method I have recommended it in the past for not everybody can come and get a massage before training! I love to use a ball in my scapula area you know that spot one can just about reach but can't get right enough pressure! Thanks again B,

The fascia around my torso, my spine hips and shoulders is so achy. Need fascia release. So many pent up emotions

Super interesting video! Thank you

Fantastic video. And a great area to live as well, reminds me a little bit of Canberra

You're an amazing athlete! How did you jump backwards out of the lake? Incredible!

LMT, just wanted to say how much I enjoy your vids; always useful, relevant, accurate, and interesting. Great channel, man!

Great vid, loved it !

Really great info . Thank you

Truly fantastic! Thank you for the information.

A brilliant video clip!

just did the ball foot thing, y whole system feels better. great info.

I tried the foot fascia massage for 15 seconds on each foot and could do a much deeper hamstring stretch. Wow! Fantastic video! There aren’t many people talking about fascia. And there are even fewer people really talking about the body as inherently interconnected. I also loved your comment about body scan meditation being of possible use. I’ll be watching your channel for more goodies. Thanks again!

Very good Logo. Good video.

great video! ill give it a try

Osteopathic Manipulative / NeuroMusculoSkeletal Medicine is the full medical specialty that is in their scope of practice and Advanced Biostructural Correction (ABC). Neurologic control of fascia is the important piece to understand how fascia behaves. If you are fully anesthetized, fascia is no longer active either and joints can be moved to the anatomical barriers and/or beyond that will result in damage because the protective mechanism of the neuro-fascial system. It just indicates the coordinated and integrated understanding of the body, specifically neurobiomechanical aspects in this video. Visceral and pathological physiology is impacted by fascia as well. Good start to this understanding. Much more in OMM/NMM expertise and profession.

I didn't know it takes collagen 3 years to heal. Makes sense as to why my knee is still messed up. Thanks.

Thank you! There is so much misinformation and disinformation and downright baloney being peddled and promulgated regarding this fascinating tissue. (Chuckled at "fascianating") You and Tom Myers have imparted some of the most useful information regarding this remarkable tissue. As a therapist. I'm grateful for more useful info. Keep it coming plz

after hearing this I have became a fitness fascist

Nice vid bro we needed this

Thank you so much. I have a condition called muscle Tension dysphonia and I am currently looking for any benefits that can help. This seems like it will help. If you have any other tips I’d love to know but thanks so much for your Delano description!! I understand a bit more about the body!!

My fashas fascia. Lol. The Austin powers reference was great. I thought I was the only one with that kind of sense of humor.

Great vid. I can honestly say I haven't read or seen anything quite so in depth and comprehensive on this subject. Nice locations, too! Where were you for those outdoor shots?

Great video!

You are awesome! Thanks for this info!

Another awesome video 👍👍

Very informative . thank you

Great Video!!! Physical Strength obviously Start from Mind Thinking on How Our Body Actually Function!!! You're a Complete Body Builder THANKS!!

Nice video man!

That was really interesting. Thank you

THANKS FOR THE INFO BREAKDOWN YOU SAVED US TIME AND GAINED US USABLE KNOWLEDGE .. :D

Thanks Brother Great information 💪❤️🙏

Love your content man

Hmm. I recently had a collagen shot in my wrist. Doc said the fascia in the area was probably scarred. I figured out that it was the gloves I wore for work. They were cutting off the circulation in the wrist. These are the wool gloves with the rubber grip across the palm and fingers. So I began to cut the gloves at the wrists to allow for blood flow. This worked. My wrist has gained mobility and strength since then and there is still pain along with popping and grinding in the joint. However it has subsided significantly. I dont like shots either so this Aha moment has benefited me greatly.

I spent years in chronic pain and it’s all to do with the fascia the only way to break it down is eccentrics/ negatives and resistance/ weighted stretching your totally right you can not do anything to the fascia by external touch it’s got to be loaded eccentrics the fascia turns to rock inside you when you get to chronic pain stage the fascia has gone to hard it ridiculously hard as hard a bone tbh. I spent 2 years breaking the stuff up you can feel it under you skin (turns to rock around joins and connects joint to joint pulling tight into steel cables) to break these down is really hard. But just use eccentrics. With pelvic pain which I had you get a build up on the stomach ( a bit like a dowegers hump but on the lower abs) to break this down you use an ab roller with a spring in it to allow you to focus on the eccentric. PNF stretching doesn’t do much tbh (you have to contract the muscle first then stretch it under loads/ contraction) Check out bob Cooley resistance stretching only thing that worked for me and I tried everything. But this is coming back from chronic pain stage not sure what it’s like if your generally healthy It’s quite easy to spot when you know where to look for it I can see some in the left side of your neck that will connect to a some dense fascia round your left jaw (i spent 6 months trying to get rid of it there) Btw great channel 👍👍

Very interesting video, thanks for the upload, i'll try to take care of my fascias as i can ^^

Thank you for this 🙏🏻

The way my therapist tried to explain it to me: Fascia is a very dry membrane, and massaging it floods the area with more blood, and it is in the extra heat and moisture, in addition to the pressure and/or vibration from the massage, that makes it more malleable, allowing to extend, stretch, and more easily break down scar tissue (which are then flushed away by the nearest blood vessel). Not sure if that is true or not, or partially true, but it sort of made sense to me.

this makes completeley sense. verry usefull content. keep this up :). (and: thanks)

Myo facial release is crucial to my recovery. Facial layers are so interesting. How it protects, how it helps, how scar tissue makes it like glass and hardens. Facia is electric and helps send signals. When facia is damaged or inflamed, it can’t process data nor send the correct signals to the appropriate muscle groups. Facia is super interesting and incredibly useful. We really don’t know shit about the human body, when we really break it down.

i was looking for this

Completely fascianated 💙

YES!!, I knew you'd talk about fascia

Damn your channel is awesome. Absolute scholar.

I started using a HyperVolt Plus percussive massage gun. I have a lot of pain from multiple back and leg surgeries. This gun instantly reduced my pain by about 50%. As I told my physical therapist, who introduced me to the gun during a therapy session, I don't know if it massaged my muscles, my nerves or my fascia. Whatever it did, it reduced my pain! All but one of my leg surgeries were nerve decompressions. My back surgeries resulted in L3/S1 fusion.

Awesome information and well presented! I learned a ton! Any advice for the cervical and thoracic spine regions? I'm in chronic pain from my atlas to T12. Had a bad accident 15 years ago and I'm still suffering! You probably already know all of the musculature that attaches in between and all of them have a propensity to stay in a state of spasm. Thank you in advance!

Your comments on meditative fascial release reminded me of Maxick. Have you done a video on Maxick? I bought one of his books but it really was of very little help to me to understand how to actually employ his technique.

Thanks great video.

Yet another awesome video. There is some amazing and excellent content on KZfaq if you take the time to explore properly. Yours is up there with the best brother, in my humble opinion. I’ve been massaging and doing martial arts and related training for years and I’ve realised this about fascia for a fair while now. I’ve based most of my training for a few years on strengthening the whole fascia tendon structure as a type of experiment on myself and found that when I did this the body also built a lot of muscle bulk, as a side effect due to time under tension I suppose. Almost no bodybuilding type of isolation movement. But the way you’ve trained in every possible way and your dedication to whole body capability is next level and truly impressive. And then you bring that information to us in such an accurate and articulate way. Bioneer you are a pioneer of our times and we’re lucky to have you.

Please pick me as member of your fan club mate, pure gold!!

Very good

Awesome video, thanks! Can you please do a video on sports massage therapy or massage therapy in general? How it works and why it works? Thanks.