Do you understand Anatomy Trains?

In case you have just joined the Functional Revolution, you need to know about Thomas Myers and "Anatomy Trains."

In a previous job I used to teach anatomy in a dissection room.

We use to discard the fascia in order to get to the muscles.

We taught individual muscle actions by way of origin and insertion.

We failed to teach integration or that muscles attach to muscles via the fascia.

Rather than discard the fascia, Myers took the scalpel sideways and discovered that everything is attached to everything.

Rather than the bones and the muscles holding the body upright, the bones and muscles are floating within the fascial structures of the body.

This revolutionary idea gets away from the reductionist, isolated body part theory, commonly used in anatomy teaching.

Isolated muscle teaching is contextual, whereas anatomy trains is functional.

If we are training in functional movement, then we need to understand fascia and how no muscle works in isolation.

If you want to know more I recommend Myers book, Anatomy Trains, which is now in its third edition.

Thomas Myers, the Bulletproofbodies team salute you.