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Yankees have 2 serious problems. 1. They paid over $70 million for player injuries this year--the most of any MLB team. 2. They are ranked #15 out of 30 teams in sprint speed. Both problems are the result of scar tissue from lifting weights. While this scar tissue can't be released with stretching or physio, it is released with Somax Microfiber Reduction--as can be seen in the short video at the top of www.somaxsports.com If Yankees players can start our program this week, they can finally win the World Series next year.

Aaron Judge flexor injury linked to stiff legs/hips from scar tissue from lifting weights. See stats, links & photos at https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7359705873390227457/

I did some more research on muscle fibers and found something very interesting.

Muscle fibers are about half the diameter of a human hair, which is why it takes about 20-50,000 fibers to make up each major muscle.

While muscles can be strong, single muscle fibers themselves are very fragile.

MPa is a measure of tensile or tear strength. Muscle fibers have an MPa of .44--less than half of 1 MPa.

A human hair has an MPa of 260.

Which means a single muscle fiber is 590 times weaker than a human hair.

If human hair was as fragile as a muscle fiber, just combing your hair would tear it all into pieces.

This is why baseball players and other athletes should not be lifting heavy weights and why weights tear muscle fibers. The individual muscle fibers are very weak and easily torn.

While the body does repair the torn fibers and they do become bigger and stronger, the body also creates scar tissue that gradually accumulates with each lifting session, making the athlete stiffer, slower and more easily injured. A good example is Aaron Judge, who has seen his sprint speed ranking drop from #145 to #389 (a drop of 244 places) over the past 6 years.

Light to moderate resistance is a better way to increase strength. Tom Brady did this by replacing weights with bands, was able to maintain his flexibility and had one of his best years when he retired from football at age 45.

Recent research has found that flexible people live longer than stiff people. Photos show that the best athletes in the world are also the most flexible.
Unfortunately, research has found that stretching improved flexibility only 13 degrees.
But dozens of photos show that Somax Microfiber Reduction improves flexibility as much as 83 degrees in four weeks or less, enabling 18 Olympic athletes to win 44 Gold Medals and set 11 World Records. By contrast, it took 439 athletes to train and stretch for 4 years each to win 44 Gold Medals.

Do you want to be slow and stiff or fast and flexible? Do you want to improve in 4 years or 4 weeks? Stretching does not improve flexibility. Microfiber Reduction does because flexibility is in the connective tissue and not in the muscles.

It's not every day I get interviewed by the media and encouraged to really speak my mind. Wonderful interview by Authority Magazine at

Bob Prichard of Somax Performance Institute: How Athletes Optimize Their Mind & Body For Peak… The best strategy to optimize the body for peak performance is to get rid of what’s holding it back. These are microfibers in the…

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The Somax Golf Swing—Front This video ( http://golf-swing-video.com ) shows the Somax golf swing from the front. By improving his Range, Sequence, Separation and Speed, this golfer was able…

Sarah wanted to play baseball, but none of the local teams picked her. She couldn't run fast because her knees banged together. Her mom brought her to me and in two weeks, we were able to release the microfibers (mild scar tissue) that were restricting her legs. Her mom called me a few weeks later--Sarah was just picked to play on a team.

If you or someone you know is stiff and hasn't been able to improve their flexibility or sports performance by stretching or coaching, have them give us a call. And be sure to see the short video at the top of our home page www.somaxsports.com
and then click on Client Photos in the top navigation to see amazing before and after photos of people of all ages.

Muscle does not win baseball games.

This is the surprising insight from our recent research paper on Major League Baseball results from last year. The teams with the most muscle (Giants, Yankees, Mets) all placed 4th in their division while a less muscled team won the World Series.

The paper at https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7176252544778661889/ has the stats and graphs.

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Our research has found that flexible baseball teams win more games while stiff baseball players incur more injuries. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7163946896388972545/

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7158137463306166272/

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