More On Bone Rhythms and Pain

I've been practicing these a lot this week with my Back Squat. After straining my right psoas last week on a 2-Hand Anyhow, the squats were a little rough earlier in the week--couldn't find a comfortable position. I should've stopped, but I didn't--Franz called it like he saw it: I'm an addict.

Here's the coolest thing about the Bone Rhythm (BR) work: when you get it right, movements are literally effortless. I performed approximately 12 sets of 2 yesterday just before my MRI (gotta get that knee really pissed off so it shows up real good on the film...) with only 105kg. There were only 2 reps that created any discomfort in my knee. The bar felt like a broomstick on my back. The only frustrating thing is that my squat technique has changed due to the BR work so it feels like I'm literally staring at the floor between my feet when I'm in the bottom--but the cool thing is I'm no longer visually dependent--my eyes aren't in a fixed position during the squat--they move with the body. Another cool thing about the BR work is that it's designed to fully stimulate the joint mechanorecpetors thereby increasing proprioception (By the way, this does mean you can train and improve your balance without even standing on a wobbly board.) and therefore motor control and therefore, strength.

Back to the strained psoas: It didn't go away on it's own and I didn't know which tools to use in my Z toolbox to fix it, so I broke down and "cheated" and went to the chiro for some ART. I used to be addicted to that stuff. Good guy the chiro and he means well. He treated my multifidus and psoas and "adjusted" my right SI which he said was stuck. It wasn't. When he adjusted me, the adjustment was actually around L2-L3. Anyway, pain never really went away. I got ahold of Dr. Cobb who suggested some ideas, and of course, they worked. Why didn't the ART work? Cause it was painful--it was nocioceptive stimuli. How much sense does it make to put the body in more pain to get it out of pain? Huh?

Here's another thing regarding many of our "treatments:" They don't work right away and they take several sessions or more. Why?

Why is it so difficult for many/most of my colleagues to believe that Z works instantly/instantaneously? Because nothing else does so we're conditioned to believe that Z falls into the "If it's too good to be true..." category.

But here's the thing: Z is just a tool to ask the body the right question so you can give it the right answer. It uses the body's own inherent wisdom it was created with to get it out of pain and into high level performance.

Brad Nelson writes about a similar experience in his blog. Here's the link below:

http://kineticedgeperformance.com/blog.php

They are very similar to my own personal experience with Z-Health.

I've said this before many times and I'll continue to shout it from the rooftops:

Z-Health is "it."

It's the "thing" we've all been looking for.

It delivers what every other system promises but fails to deliver (with the exception of the RKC).

Z always works. Always. It just may not work in the manner you intended it, which simply means you didn't know what question to ask the body or misinterpreted and answer it gave you previously.

Z just builds upon itself allowing the body to recapture the maliability and plasticity it had when you were two years old. Imagine moving like that only better. That's what Z does for the body.

Forget balance pads, foam rollers, and TvA activation drills. They work for a short period of time just because they're different input/stimulus for the CNS. Then the results stop. Stop wasting time. If you're a trainer/coach, you need Z in your toolbox. You'll be a better trainer/coach and your clients/athletes will reap the results.

Here endeth the lesson.