As we age, the body slowly ossifies. Tissues dehydrate, elasticity fades, and what was once springy starts to behave more like bone. That is why maintaining elastic recoil becomes harder over time.

Many of our elastic bands, our muscles, gradually get longer and longer until they lose their ability to snap back. Once they go offline, other muscles are forced to overcompensate, and that is where pain and inefficiency show up.

Traditional stretching only speeds this process up. Length without rebound turns elastic tissue into slack tissue. You get looser, but weaker and less resilient.

Here is the part most people miss. Movement already involves stretching. When you move in a way that actually challenges your distortions, you will feel a stretch naturally.

When you train using Functional Patterns , that stretch is paired with force production and rebound. Instead of accelerating ossification, you restore elastic recoil and output.

https://blossom.primal.net/49bab47eaff24edd51d7f593695c5a8265f5e97081c5c9d547c2072511d2189e.mp4