The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
With one nger pressed deep
into the end of a given muscle (a tendon insertion point) and another nger of the opposite
hand pressed into the opposite end, he would progress through a series of tests to return a
dormant muscle to its previous function.
From a brochure at his clinic:
We have found that when a body part is overloaded or stressed past its capacity to handle
the load, there is a predictable result. Either the muscle or connective tissue is injured, or
the proprioceptive system deactivates parts of the tissue, much like a circuit breaker in an
electrical circuit.
The body adapts, recruiting other muscles to take over the load. With repetition, the
The body adapts, recruiting other muscles to take over the load. With repetition, the
adaption advances. Recruited tissues get stronger, impaired areas atrophy.
It didn't take long to demonstrate this "reactivation" in practice. Dr. Two Fingers rst tested