Big Springs!!!! Love this run Should have run it twice. Went for my second hour of treatments from Dr. Rawlin. Initially, in my lower body, he found 61 muscles that weren't "firing" correctly. After doing research the past couple of years into trying to self-treat, educate, and figure out why I get in pain, where the pains come from, and ways to alleviate my own muscle aches and pains, after seeing the long list of muscles that aren't doing their jobs, I finally fully understand all the issues I have had of a lifetime of back and leg issues. I understand why a few months ago, in particular after I did the 126 mile week, and then after SLC marathon, why I started to get all these very lingering and rotating muscle pains finally settled into certain spots and just became more and more aggravated. I ran out of muscles for the body to use to compensate for muscles that don't fire correctly. This also explains why anytime I try to do speed work and reach into a real pushing harder zone my hamstrings seize up and shut down the effort. For the past three years I have been able to get the cardio and efficiency working without ever really pushing the body into new speed zones. From what it seems to me, the body has compensated its way into working pretty efficiently for the parts that do work, but when you ask your body to push past the limits of the muscles that are in compensation mode that's when the tightness, in particular my hamstrings hits and I have to slow back down. After he got done activating muscles today the retested them to see what I had left to activate. And while he was testing lower leg muscles I understood why my adductors had had so many problem recently, they have been compensating for most of the muscles in my lower legs as well as quads and hamstrings. When he would try to get me to use the lower leg muscles the adductors would try to take over to make the movement happen. So thinking about all of this, I wonder about how when a muscle is off and we don't realize it, but we recognize that we have some muscle weakness, and try to strenghten it in various ways, whether at the gym or various ply exercises if we are just strenghthening the compensating muscles to make them be able to keep compensating in the plane of movement that they shouldn't have to work in, which enables us to go faster or go longer using the wrong muscles.
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