This pain-free type of stretching helps to improve your range of motion so you can run without discomfort.
stretch in which you’re lying on the floor, with your leg up to the ceiling. Instead of simply helping you lift your leg and stretching your hamstring at the point of discomfort, “an FST therapist would ease you into the stretch pain free, add some dorsiflexion to engage the, and find your range of motion,” she says. This might involve varying the angle or oscillating the stretch.
Then, if the therapist feels you need help relaxing to improve the stretch, they would ask you to contract your muscles and “press” against the stretch for a period of time. When they instruct you to relax, the stretch reflex that’s designed to prevent you from, is deactivated momentarily, allowing for a deeper, more comfortable stretch that’s still within a safe zone, based on your personal range of motion.
The goal, then, isn’t to stretch you to the point of pain or to “beat your fascial adhesions into submission,” as some myofascial release proponents suggest, but rather to promote movement to encourage your fascia to return to its ideal “sliding” state that better enablesThe Difference Between Flexibility and MobilityFor a runner the primary benefit of fascia stretch therapy is that it promotes better movement.
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