i just got a comment from a client and it fired me up to shoot this video for you and here's here's what he said in the comment jack cool side story my 62-year-old neighbor told me "I feel 10 years younger after doing fascia hopping for 8 days like you say he found a rhythm and it changed everything." So the question you might be asking is how the heck does this 62-year-old guy feel 10 years younger after 8 days of fascia hopping and the answer is the exercise is designed to restore your elasticity and I'm going to show you fascia hopping today that's today's exercise but before I do that I want to make sure you know what's exactly is elasticity so think of have you ever had an old pair of underwear or they got so old and worn out that the waistband lost its elasticity and they kept sliding down as goofy as it sounds your fascia that tissue that surrounds all your muscles think of that film when you cut into a chicken breast that's fascia well your fascia is a lot like the old underwear when you get old you also your fascia loses elasticity and when you lose your elasticity it's a problem what happens is you start to lose that spring in your movement now your muscles have to work harder than they should this creates imbalances the imbalances lead to weakness loss of coordination loss of agility injury prone all the things that make getting old a pain in the ass think of it this way the enemy of elasticity in your body is two things one is tension the body can't be you know bouncy or springy with elasticity if you're tense or if you got slack in the system so we want to stretch the fascia wets suit just right where it's taut internally but not so taut it's tense we're going to do that right now by getting our alignment straight so go ahead and suspend the head think of the hand of God grabs you by the top of the hair just kind of gives you a tug it straightens out your neck your chin is parallel to the floor your your chin isn't cocked okay so now your head is up suspended up and think that your shoulders are down head up shoulders down so we got this upward pressure up with the head downward with this with the shoulders that puts a stretch on the fascia wets suit now let's get a stretch left to right spread the chest gently spread the upper back gently now we got a stretch left to right this the fascia wet suit has a little more stretch in it think of the fascia wet suit as like a Spider-Man suit of fascia that covers the muscles it's an imagery thing that's why I use it okay so now that we got this stretch going on I want you to think of taking the shoulders they're down remember think of gravity sending the mass the weight of your shoulders down into your center kind of your midsection in the front and the back it's a subtle feeling but if you get your shoulders down you'll feel a little more mass in your midsection we don't want the shoulders to float once the shoulders creep up into the ears we're disconnected and the fascia wet suit is leaking power so we keep those shoulders down so the mass goes into the belly okay next we're going to go down to the springboard feet what I want you to do is get on the balls of your feet and just raise your heels a inch or so just that much and go ahead and just just bounce gently right there with the heels up feel that now what I want you to do is the FS FSP dance i call it fascia strength and power dance where you keep the alignment stretch the fascia wets suit is stretched up and down left to right and I want you to just to make this movement here with your arms and you can see my hips are kind of doing this Elvis thing but I'm not moving from my shoulders and my hips i'm thinking of my center it's the engine of the movement rather than my shoulders and my hips think of the center as kind of like doing a figure eight almost like a belly dancer now as I do this FSP dance what I'm telling myself is I can keep the stretch in my alignment the fascia wets suit i can keep the stretch up and down and left and right but I'm not so stretched tight where I can't do the FSP dance i want just enough internal stretch where I feel the stretch but I can move freely that's the key to building fascia strength internal stretch but moving freely all right so we got that going my heels are up now I'm going to put my arms down keep the stretch and I'm gonna just start moving a little more up and down on the ball using the balls of my feet and my toes my heels are kind of fixed i want them to be fixed i don't want them flopping up and down when I do that all the energy dissipates out out of my legs out of my feet instead if I keep my heel fixed the ground force bounces off the ground and comes back up into my body kind of a springboard effect keep the heel fixed now if you got injuries or you're up in years and you don't want to hop and leave the ground this is as far as you go you just stay in this position and spring up and down without leaving the ground just like this now if you are able you start hopping get a couple inches off the ground on each hop and as you can see my ank my heel is staying fixed i don't want it loping up and down where it it leaks all the the power keep the heel fixed and bounce so this is fascia hopping the fascia wets suit is pulled internally stretched but not so stretched that I can't stop and do FSP dance okay so a good workout plan to get some lift off of this exercise is do this for two minutes every day for the next seven days and here's the key one you got to get in the right alignment like I just showed you but two and this is very important think of finding a rhythm don't just clunk around hopping find a rhythm like a bump bump bump bump bump bump because if you find a rhythm what you're doing is you're turning off muscle tension and turning on your elasticity think of a a dancer a dancer can't be tight they use their elasticity that's why they move so well and look so graceful so think of doing the fascia hopping with a rhythm and every day for the next seven days you do your two minutes you think of being more smooth more rhythm than the last time you do it if you use that barometer as your progression rhythm and smoothness you will build elasticity in your body with fascia hopping one little thing I do when I'm hopping I think I'm a human pogo stick you know a pogo stick has that spring at the bottom so when kids are on it and they they do the pogo stick the spring compresses when they when they force down onto it and then that spring releases and then the pogo stick is like self-propelling so think of yourself as a self-propelling pogo stick with rhythm remember being a kid and you could wake up and just blast out of bed and run and gun all day you could you were playing you were climbing you were running you could sprint you could you could wrestle all of it with little effort that was your body's your fascia's elasticity at work every step had bounce every movement was spring-loaded from all that elasticity that kid-like elasticity is what we're trying to restore with the fascia hopping in my other fascia strength exercises i just added an advanced version of fascia hopping to the fascia strength and power course if you own the course go ahead and log on go to the bottom where the bonus section is and look for the exercise called advanced fascia hopping if you don't own the course go ahead and uh I'll leave the link down below in the description you can take a look if you're interested that's all I have for you today we'll see you on the next