resistance stretching
Meridian Flexibility System
Resistance Flexibility and Strength Training (Meridian Stretching) is rooted in knowledge of the organic nature of muscular flexibility. It is based on the principle that muscles stretch best if contracted while lengthening them. This active contraction is called resistance and is the key to producing rapid increases in flexibility.
The simplicity of how muscles truly stretch by using resistance is the power behind Resistance Flexibility and Strength Training. The discovery of this 'new way' to stretch tells you to CONTRACT AND LENGTHEN your muscles while stretching them. Placing yourself in over-extended positions is not stretching. Pulling and yanking on your muscles is not stretching. Unknown to most people is the new discovery that when you stretch a muscle it naturally contracts and resists to produce the stretch. Your true flexibility range occurs only when you maximally resist while lengthening.
It takes twice the tension to stretch a muscle as to strengthen it! Contracting a muscle while simultaneously stretching it is the secret to stretching. This is called Resistance Stretching®.
Resisting while stretching is natural. Most people start stretching for physical reasons, but they continue to stretch because they have learned that predictable upgrades in their physiological and psychological health can occur by doing specific stretches.
we are the west coast center for Resistance Stretching and the Meridian Flexibility System
