Trigger Point Performance Therapy

The Fuzz – Why you need to look after you muscle tissue

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Thanks to San Francisco CrossFit Blog I landed upon this YouTube video shown below by Gil Hedley, Ph.D., of http://www.gilhedley.com where he gives the Fuzz speech lesson on the importance of movement and stretching to maintain the sliding properties of tissues in the body, as well as the value of bodywork modalities (like rolling) and yoga when movement potential has become inhibited.

It’s a great visual representation of how tissue can bind up, leaving you less mobile and in pain. Yes Gil shows you in a humorous way that the fuzz forms while your immobile and if you keep the muscle immobile then more fuzz will lay down limiting movement even more. Accumulation of fuzz is even greater with muscle damage and muscle damage comes about from training! So do you want to increase your efficiency and power output? Of course you do… then start removing the fuz! (warning! Human cadavers are shown to help the lesson)