What’s up? Patrick Lerouge here. You can find me at livepainfreeprocess.com; I’m an intuitive healing expert and the creator of the Live Pain Free Process. I’ve been creating some pretty innovative ways to get you guys to learn how to heal. I’m feeling pretty good about that because I’m getting great responses from all of you. What I’m here to talk about today is realizing the difference between conditioning a muscle and strengthening a muscle. Once you understand the difference between the two, you’ll start being able to rehab yourself properly.<\/p>\n
When you are injured, your body will try to constrict movement so it doesn’t hurt itself further. If it constricts itself long enough, you’ll get muscle atrophy, like a withering effect almost dying away. On the short term, you’ll start getting the muscles to bind causing you to not move well. I had a knee injury case that come in; she wanted to rehab herself, and she started realizing that she was on the bike all the time, but she was not getting any stronger. I had to get her to realize that when you’re on the bike and you’re doing something repetitive in that way, your body is actually conditioning the muscle tissue that it already has access to, not building more muscle fibers to get stronger.<\/p>\n