Muscle Activation Techniques Car Analogy

Muscle Activation Techniques is an effective tool for improving muscular contractile abilities in end range positions. Through stress, trauma, and overuse muscles can lose their ability to produce adequate tension in there end range positions. Why is this important? If a muscle can’t effectively shorten through its full length you see a correlating loss of range of motion, or mobility, of the related joint or joints to that muscles. Loss of range of motion can often be perceived as things being tight, stiff, and often painful. Instead of thinking of that tight muscles are the cause for loss of mobility, instead MAT’s perspective is that particular muscles are not contracting effectively resulting in tightness, stiffness, and often pain. If this is the case, the solution is to improve the contractile abilities of the weakened muscles, this will result in improvements in tightness, pain, strength, and performance.