Monday, October 6, 2008

Rolfing measurably improves running performance

I came across this interesting article the other day. Essentially, by aligning the body segments in relation to one another, releasing the muscular adhesions that make us less efficient, and getting the segments to work together as a unit rather than as a collection of discrete collection of parts (other wise known as integrating the function of the parts of the body), one becomes more efficient, more flexible, less prone to injury, able to heal more quickly, and best of all, faster.

Think about it. If you had an old Italian sports car, it was fun to drive, noisy, spunky and all but when tuned, the car runs more smoothly with less drama. That about captures the essence of it.

Good article on Ultrarunning and Structural Integration

1 comment:

Manny Aragon said...

Hi Kevin. The Rolf Workshop espouses natural remedies for these types of issues as they are systemic in nature and treating the symptom with pharma drugs misses the point completely. We offer nutritional counseling and acupuncture which can deal with most common internal imbalances. Not only does this methodology address the root causes of the problem symptoms, it is usually far less expensive in both the long as well as short term.