Nic Bartolotta: The Truth Behind Stretching

Wellness + Wisdom Podcast

Josh Trent

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 913 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Get ready to heal, relax, and strengthen your body through restrictive stretching.

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Today on the podcast, we're learning about a training technique called DCT or Dynamic Contraction Technique, that addresses these questions and much more from our friend, Licensed Physical Therapist and Founder of The National Resistance Stretching Association, Nic Bartolotta.

We're delving into new topics like flexibility vs. flex-ability, how to properly train our muscles using eccentric loading, and why Nic believes from working with thousands of clients and some of the top stars in the NBA that we all have what he calls a "second heart" in our lower extremities, and what stretching this second heart can do for our overall movement quality and wellness.

If you've ever had an injury or circulation issue that sidelined you on your wellness journey, or if you've been looking for a way to build up the proper range of motion without compensating your joints, this is going to be an insightful and thought provoking episode.

Be sure to listen until the end of the show where Nic discusses how to train flexibility using the ProFlex and RolFlex, and listen as he uncovers the most common mistakes that people make when training flexibility in new exercise programs.

Nic Bartolotta will share with us how proper stretching, leg movements, and exercise can help power the "second heart" in our calf muscles, aka the soleus muscle.

Listen to Episode 178 as Nic Uncovers:

How his personal background became a huge part of developing his professional career in alternative medicine and resistance training.
The challenge to find the right answers in order to fix Nic's knee.
Common misconceptions about what stretching actually is and how to properly do it.
What is DCT and what are the benefits?
What is myofascia and how can a massage heal other parts of the body because it connects every tissue of the body.
Which stretches can affect the myofascia or general muscles?
The difference between the fascial tension and muscle tension.
Why the calf and the lower leg is considered "the second heart" of the body.
How to reach out to a professional to help you with restrictive stretching and DCT.
What you can do on your own to improve your restrictive stretching and DCT ability.
The wide use of DCT tools like the ProFlex even among professional basketball players.
Flexibility vs Flex-Ability: what's the difference and how does Flex-Ability apply to everyone?
What creates knots and muscle tension in our bodies?
Common mistakes people make when beginning a new exercise.
When is the best time to stretch?

3 Takeaways From The Show

Physical movement throughout the day is important to ensure that we're pumping blood from our calves (the soleus muscle) back to our heart. Every time you run, jog, or just walk, you're working your second heart.

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0:16.7	Most people believe that stretching is supposed to be painful and that that sharp feeling when you relax into a stretch is what you're trying to accomplish and that is honestly why most people don't stretch is because it is painful if you relax into a stretch.
0:20.9	When you resist with a muscle during a stretch, when you don't relax into a stretch,
0:25.2	the muscle protects you from that pain. And then the pain is the guideline on how far into the
0:31.2	stretch you should go. So as long as you maintain a contraction in a stretch,
0:36.0	you're not going to feel the sharpness. The sharpness is actually the indicator that you're doing something wrong.
0:42.0	That's Nick Bardolota and this is
0:44.2	episode 178 of Wellness Force Radio. What's up my friend? It's your host Josh Trent.
0:50.3	Welcome back to another episode for your weekly access to global experts in all things
0:54.9	wellness as we discover the physical and emotional intelligence we need to live life well.
1:00.3	In this episode we're standing tall with our best of the best conversations with Nick Bardelodar.
1:05.0	Number 113, this is our hashtag Stand Tall series with our partner in Teleskin,
1:09.5	creators of smart compression, human technology that pulls your shoulders back throughout the day.
1:14.8	I cannot wait, by the way, for Dr. Tim Brown and Nick Vardolota to do a podcast together?
1:19.1	I'm just counting down the days till I can release that to Wellness Force radio. I mean talk about next level
1:24.3	conversations for physical intelligence and you're in for one of those today where Nick B teaches
1:30.0	us about stretching bio-tensigrity and human movement.
1:33.4	And why this is so intriguing to me, and I know you're going to love this too,
1:37.0	is because what most people don't know, is that our body actually has a second heart.
1:41.6	It's on the back of our legs and it helps us with
1:43.6	venous return pushing blood back to our heart when we're walking, moving,
1:47.7	or doing anything at all that pumps our blood. And today on the
1:50.6	podcast we're learning about a training technique for our body called DCT or dynamic
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