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Lactic Acid Isn’t Muscles’ Foe, It’s Fuel
Everyone who has even thought about exercising has heard the warnings about lactic acid. It builds up in your muscles. It is what makes your muscles burn. Its buildup is what makes your muscles tire and give out.
But that, it turns out, is all wrong. Lactic acid is actually a fuel, not a caustic waste product. Muscles make it deliberately, producing it from glucose, and they burn it to obtain energy. The reason trained athletes can perform so hard and so long is because their intense training causes their muscles to adapt so they more readily and efficiently absorb lactic acid. Read the rest of this entry
Strategic Progression
By Tom Purvis, RTS founder
Programs and protocols are usually perceived as static, as evidenced in the fact that new ones are typically recommended after several months. This relates back to the old term routine (“Will you write me up a routine?” …sound familiar?) Routines are, by definition “routine”… synonymous with being in a rut.
“Exercise is a PROCESS, not a program!”
It is for this reason that RTS recommends a process rather than a program or protocol. A process (a series of actions or operations directed toward a particular result -Webster) is, by definition, dynamic and constantly evolving in a goal oriented manner. Rather than a protocol, we utilize principles by which decisions can be made via a thought process.
Muscle Activation Techniques
Muscle Activation Techniques (M.A.T.) is a dynamic system to analyze and correct your body’s muscle-imbalances. These techniques have been very successful in the reduction of pain and fatigue, as well as the enhancement of muscle recovery in athletes.
We recommend that anyone currently involved in sports, physical performance and/or a rehabilitation program seek out a MAT practitioner to make sure they are getting all the things they want (and nothing they don’t want) from their exercise program.
Here are a few videos we made to help viewers begin to understand that if you really want to fix the way your body works, there is more to consider than just the area that hurts…
