What’s up? Patrick Lerouge here from livepainfreeprocess.com. I’m an intuitive healing expert, teaching you innovative ways to heal. What I have for you today is a question that was posed to me. “What do you do to help yourself when you’re outside?” I decided to do some work outside today. What I want to show you is things that you can do on stairs. Stairs are everywhere, as well as a curb. I want to take apart the concept of stretching your calf differently when you’re outside and when you’re running about your day.
There’s two different types of contractions that a muscle can do. It can be a concentric contraction, where you’re just contracting and the muscle shortens, or an eccentric contraction, where it’s holding load while getting longer. The eccentric is what I really want to focus on. I want you to really take in is, the muscle contracts so it shorten. When you’re muscles are elongating, that’s when your body starts to talk to you more. That’s when a lot of pain sensors start becoming more vocal. I did a video tip on the pain cycle and eccentric is all about the pain cycle. What you must do is look back at that video if you didn’t see it.
I want to change your normal, natural way of walking up stairs into a restorative way of walking and moving up stairs. The concept that I want you to really start focusing on is, when we walk on stairs, we either take a step or hold our foot straight, or you would pick ourselves up. Very similar to a calf raise. What I really want you to start learning how to do is an eccentric way of walking up the stairs. When you walk up the stairs, you’re going to step and instead of holding it sturdy, you’re actually going to allow your heel to move downward. What that’s going to do is start rewiring how your body actually starts to take stairs. Now every step that you do, stair-wise, is going to be naturally eccentrically loading your muscle. In other words you will be naturally with ever step teach your caldf how to take load and elongate without tearing. Almost like the concept of walking up a hill.
When we were cavemen, we didn’t have flat surfaces. We didn’t have to memorize the height of a stair, right? Your body always had to eccentrically load something. You’re doing many different types of movements. In today’s times it’s so structured that we don’t have that variability. Which hurts us eventually.
What I want you to do is every stair that you come about, do an eccentric load. At first it’s going to feel odd, but then it’s going to start feeling real good. That’s because your body’s learning how to consistently open, not just contract.
Send me some comments on this, because this is actually something I do all the time. I tell all my clients, especially with Achilles issues, to start doing this and it shows almost immediate results. All right? Until next time, bye.