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Hanumanasana

What happens when you stretch a muscle? (part 1)

By joemillerMay 23, 2013October 13, 2017 Categories: Anatomy, Anatomy answers, Asana, Flexibility, Health, Physiology, Research Tags: slider 3 Comments

  “What happens when a muscle stretches?” This frequently asked question — a perennial query during anatomy trainings — deserves a few blog posts, especially as the mechanism is often misunderstood. Stretching targets muscles in two ways. First, it directly affects muscle and connective tissue itself. As you’ll see in this post, those effects are temporary and short-lived.  Stretching…

Effort-less

By joemillerJanuary 9, 2013October 13, 2017 Categories: Asana Tags: slider Leave a comment

My father died three years ago today. A lifelong amateur handyman, he patiently taught me and my brothers and sister the art of hammering nails, sawing lumber, soldering wires and other such skills. He even gracefully accepted that, of all of us, only my sister possessed any actual skill. I remember many times struggling to align a screw with a…

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