I do understand that your view on “tight” muscles is they do not exist. But I want to understand how we as a community any all follow in your footsteps. Because if you simply just look up “my shoulder hurts” you’ll see many many posts about “oh your rotator cuff is tight” or “oh after you workout your chest is tight”. My point being is it does LOOK like you guys are the liars because look at all the post “proving you wrong”. And with all the personal training certificates advocating for “tight muscles” and physical therapy advocates for “tight muscle” in a sense this does make you guys look like the incorrect ones.
Again I am on your side and agree they are wrong but how do people get out of this belief if everywhere around us and the million dollar company’s telling us “tight muscles” exist.
My point being is I feel the Barbell medicine crew is a small percentage of the population while everyone else will say you look like the crazy ones for thinking this way.
Sorry for the long post.
For others viewing this thread, here is a solid introduction to the topic of “tight” muscles, with plenty of supporting evidence. Why you don’t need to worry about muscle tightness: Part 1 — Greg Lehman
As for the OP: we plan to continue putting out high quality information that is best supported by current evidence. I don’t particularly care whether people think we’re “crazy” for our positions, given how we arrived at them – people are free to believe whoever they want and act accordingly. But with that as a starting point … belief and behavior change are both separate and highly complex topics.
If you choose to engage in conversations with people on this, it is worth trying to identify what people’s underlying beliefs are, where/how they acquired these beliefs, and what evidence they value in order to support these beliefs, before introducing alternative ideas or challenging them. This approach is illustrated by the folks over at Street Epistemology, who routinely engage in conversations over much more contentious topics with people. Others may choose to value different sources or forms of “evidence” when it comes to these types of claims, which introduces other challenges as well.
Would it be right to say why the mass majority of people believe in “tight” muscles is because these big companies are the ones giving the “ok” to the personal training certification to tell this lie. And also how do we explain how physical therapist believe in this also, because obviously personal training certificates are kinda bullshit but to become a physical therapist is different. So would it be ok to say that they are teaching this lie is school to gain money from it and also who is mostly responsible for it.
Thanks.
I think it’s likely to be quite a bit more complicated than that. After all, the muscle can feel tight … even if it isn’t objectively tight, as discussed in the article I linked above.
I do not purport to have explanations for these things. Our rehab team has discussed PT school education and training on their podcast, which you may find valuable.
No, I would not make this claim.