Greg Spindler
expanding your potential
Greg Spindler
expanding your potential |
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How SET Can Yield Performance Gains Greg Spindler, LMT, CSET All serious athletes are looking for that extra edge over their competition or just to improve their own ability. Not all humans are created the same. Thus, not everyone has the same ability. But we all have a spiral distortion effect throughout the body. At a very young age, each and every human begins with a set of genetic origins to start their quest for ability. Even those with an optimum genetic makeup are not achieving to their potential due to the weaknesses of this core distortion. The core distortion is basically instability resulting from the separation between the iliums (hip bones) and the sacrum (tailbone) while under weight-bearing stress. Structural Energetic Therapy (SET) helps to provide a better opportunity for developing skills with a greater, more efficient working body of balance.
Traditionally, when an imbalance or weakness is found, a prescribed plan to strengthen the issue is recommended. However, strengthening a dysfunctional state of tissue(s) only equals a stronger dysfunctional state. Removal or improvement of the dysfunction, and then strengthening, equals greater performance gains. This is where Structural Energetic Therapy (SET) treatments become valuable for those who have the core distortion in collapsed state. In this constant state, the athlete is operating with his/her brakes on! This results in poor efficiency of motion! SET helps to correct this problem. In just a few treatments, athletes can feel the difference and coaches see differences.
SET begins with kinesiology testing to identify dysfunction, and body reading to see distortions, compensations and/or collapses. Then, using appropriate protocols from SET, athletes can experience immediate results with more balance. And, better yet, they are less likely to develop injuries.
In my experiences coaching runners and triathletes, correcting their core distortions has resulted in improved performance times, simply because of efficiency in technique. Their level of compensation has been reduced or eliminated.
Try blindfolding an athlete (say a baseball player running from 1st to 2nd base). Does he run in a straight line? If not, the core distortion is most likely to blame. Blindfold a swimmer in a pool without lane lines. What do you get? A swimmer no longer in the same lane! Remove the core distortion and he/she will swim much straighter. Athletes will be more efficient and experience less pull to one side. Times will improve, especially in distance events.
The same goes for basketball and volleyball players who need to jump straight up quickly. In the core distortion, the left arch and left great toe are weak. This prevents simultaneous timing with both feet. For a fraction of a second, the left arch and left big toe go weak and have to recruit other muscles to help catch up with the right foot. The core distortion weaknesses can be changed permanently and in only one session!
Kinesiology testing identifies the core distortion along with the following weaknesses:
- Head to the right - Right hamstrings - Left arch - Eyes to the left - Left arm - Left big toe - Left quad - Left hip - Right lateral foot …as well as a few others. With all of these weaknesses present, imagine the compensation from imbalance and the resulting lack of potential being reached!
SET work was traditionally used for rehabilitation in people with chronic and acute pain. It is through my work with athletes as a coach that I have discovered that correcting these “limiters” can lead to gains in performance.
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