The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
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Dr. P. Michael Leahy's engineering education began with aeronautics in the air force. His
fascination with structural mechanics only fully expressed itself much later, in 1985. This was
the year ART was formalized and patented, the year he applied his engineering to human soft-
tissue injuries. Leahy, a veteran of 25 Ironman triathlons, has since been doctor to, among
others, Olympic gold-medal sprinter Donovan Bailey, Gary Roberts of the NHL Toronto Maple
Leafs, and Mr. Universe Milos Sarcev.
The basic premise of the method is simple: shorten the tissue, apply manual tension, and then
lengthen the tissue or make it slide relative to its adjacent tissue. Simple does not mean easy; as
Leahy explains, "It's as simple as playing a piano and just as difficult."
What does this look like in practice? If muscles are adhered to one another or to bone, it
looks a lot like tearing muscles apart. See the visual preview below.