I got a guy to hold a Hammie/Glute exercise at extreame range for 1min each leg. His left leg was profoundly tighter and even cramped at one stage - quick ART then resumed. We did this 1 x both legs together, and 1 x each leg separate.
The tightness in his hammie as felt before and after, was greatly reduced. 
Be sure to try and find the origin (general) of the problem and address it (generally).
I do remember having to do glute ham raises for 2-3 x 20 reps for a hamstring spasm in college. It did help loosen things up fairly quickly. ROM was short too. 
hammie pain/tightness is usually caused by issues with the lower back or glute, sometimes the calf. As Pakewi says find the cause and address it.
Yes exactly
Pakewi is mentioning a Different way of delivering the Outcome of reducing muscle tightness via a different means than that of Therapy.
Finding route causes is no great issue for me - Neither is treating them.
I think i understand what Pakewi means in as much as re-programming the Muscle/Brain connection via exercises - i’m trying it out on a few clients.
Trouble is - I’m only assuming i’m right in understanding the delivery method Pakewi is suggesting. It Makes sense in how it has come across to me, and seems to be working.
For me, if “A” works in fixing something, That is great, If “B” also works in fixing something, i would like to find out about it, “B” might even be better than “A” - a combination of “A+B” might be even better?
I would like to find out what “B” is even more so. (B is what Pakewi is suggesting) - Read post 15 above this one that Pakewi wrote.
Interesting.
Indeed,I refer to training (exercise),not therapy in any way. All exercise should be therapeutic per se,promoting higher degrees of integration of the system,better function,hence better structure.
Yes, I understand that.
I also do similar, eg, scapular pulls to increase the size and strength of the rhomboids, rotor cuffs etc to create a strength reserve so they they don’t spasm as much, and stretches for surrounding muscles, works a treat.
I try not to rely on one style of delivery. Can’t move forward as a trainer if you do.
Where can I learn more about this extreme hold pattern training?
http://www.youtube.com/user/ARPWAVE1#p/u/16/7cwiQTAgqOc
I fully agree with this video.
This following video is interesting - however, in the context, it’s still a form of THERAPY, and looks very interesting. I think i recall Pakewi a few yrs ago you talking about the ARP wave?
http://www.youtube.com/user/ARPWAVE1#p/u/24/9BWNargPnU0
The thing with ARP - from what i get from the videos - is similar to what i get from FOAM rolling! Removing the tension from an area removes compensation patterns. trouble is there are many many muscles in the body - and your fix one, then discover another muscle, then another…
Pakewi - interesting to note, all my clients that start with me, they all start with Mediball throws - each muscle has its own throw, almost similiar to the reactive catch and release examples shown in the videos you linked to.
I do this and don’t allow anybody to progress to Harder exercises untill they have mastered the mediball - it breaks Left/right side patterns (or compensation patterns) and also front/rear patterns.
Sometimes you can see, some muscles are not responding, or cant respond as some come in with FROZEN muscles - eg, rhombiods, certain rotor cuffs, hip flexors ect. We then remove the tension (tension which is mostly 80% of the time on the LEFT) and once removed, and stretched out, the activity recommences with Vastly different outcomes (for the better)
Once Mediball work is passed, we move onto Bodyweight exercises, same thing applies, then Dumbbells and or Cables. Again, looking for issues and fixing them as they arrive.
I typically find, once i can get somebody doing a full body Dumbbell complex routine - correctly, they have NO compensation issues.
The only thing from there on out, is to ensure tightness, or compensation issues do not sneak in.
eg - people do things outside from me, like Golf, or gardening, or tennis, or whatever. The repetitive nature of ONE side domination of these activities leads to tightness in one side. (normally the left)
the other vid - I have never seen this done with a tens machine before, my man used to do by feel.
my question, was the problem related to catching/sticking of the muscle sheeth.
That’s because it’s not a TENS machine. Or EMS - looks similar, works different.
Catching/sticking of muscle sheeth i find, helps to reduce muscle tone 1st, then work on Sheeth/muscle “stickyness” - i find a Jade stone works wonders in this regard, Always followed by Stretching, always
I probably do not understand what is being discussed.
From my experience after a back operation and physio- 3 days a week for 9 months, there is an alternative way to treat, a tens machine in my case tuned my body to make massive endorphins (spelling). My back problem was relieved by freeing my right shoulder/scapula. I have not used stretches for almost 10 years.
Post 15 is one of yours, the post no: is on the right
Sorry, it was meat to be 15 from the post i made, counting backwards.
It’s actually post number 7 - going by the Post numbers on the right. Post numbers, good find
Stretching is how you implement it.
An example
If you’re watering your garden, with a hose, and it knotts up, the water stops flowing.
If you pull nice n hard, or even just medium tension on the hose, the knott tightens up and the water flow Stops.
You need to shake the hose then pull, sometimes a few times, once the knott is removed, you can pull as hard as you like, and the water still flows.
Pull too hard though, and the hose rips out of the Tap, like a tendon getting ripped in its joint…
Interesting,as this is precisely what I was referring to when I mentioned the Force Time Curve in response to your question about load.
Everything related to the ARPwave and POVsport technologies and to the System which backs them up is related to velocity,and maintains velocity as the mainframe of the whole System (precisely as speed is in CFTS).
Now my question for you becomes: starting from where you mention above,is progressing to “harder exercises” and loads really…a progression? What is your end goal in doing that? Can that goal-whatever it may be - be accomplished without such a “progression”?
Also: wouldn’t putting (and keeping) the whole system in a situation where it HAS TO respond maximally and as a whole,without even allowing the possibility of “some muscles not responding” beforehand,be a more efficient strategy ?
In the ARPwave System all therapy is training,really. As well as all training is therapy.
If you look at muscles then chances are you enter a chain which end up being a loop re-iterating itself. Look at the whole as a system,and address each problem as being a systemic one,instead. Address the system,and individual muscles -“many many”,as you say-will take care of themselves.
You would have heard about the discussions regarding stretching, it was brought up a conference, ““the jury is still out on that one””.
why put tension on a hose if there is nothing wrong, leave the stretching to the physios, use all their recovery techniques during training what can they do different to rehabilitate
To use a Paweki word ““organisms”” cannot distinguish between stretch and exercise. If you was to do 30" stetching before the 1 hour exercise and 30" after the exercise you have done 2 hours of exercise according to the organism.
As I understand it, there is sticking between the sheeths probably caused because a group of organisms have not been working at the same rate because !!! and the lubrication between the sheeves breaks down creating a partial fusion. When you do the exercises the muscles work together pulling on the tendon in a straight plane. When a stretch is done often it is not performed in the proper plane. Every time you execute a dynamic exercise the tendon is stretched. The body is placed in a desired position that causes the whole organism to work as one.
My man during manipulation would firstly find the offending section by feel and using different methods either stretch or tease causing a spasm which would free the stuck sheeth. What Pakewi has shown has the same goal, instead of invasive his option is more passive. Meaning less tissue damage and therefore a much faster recovery time.
I agree on everything not on your definition “more passive”. In fact I would define it more active,as it involves maximal activation,both recruitment and rate wise.
I did not go into how you do what you do, it is not my intellect, give credit where credit is due. I was referring to how your method as a whole could create less damage than what my man practised.
I had similar exercises that worked multible joints and I C U see you isolating.
My exercises were not aimed at treating a problem more at avoiding them.