The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
best of the best in their respective sports: four-time Super Bowl star linebacker Bill
Romanowski, NBA players John Stockton and Karl Malone, and alpine ski star Picabo Street,
among others.
Buhler approached injuries differently than most.
Unlike the majority of therapists, who treat the tight or painful muscles and joints themselves
(i.e., sore lower back? work on the lower back; painful Achilles? rehab the Achilles),
Buhler's sought to unpeel the onion of proprioception, how the nervous system, in this case,
turns muscles on or off.
Seabiscuit had nicknamed Buhler "Dr. Two Fingers" because of his unusual approach to
isolating and reactivating individual muscles that had been injured or deactivated. For his
highest-level athletes, this could be done for up to 700 muscles. With one nger pressed deep
into the end of a given muscle (a tendon insertion point) and another nger of the opposite