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12/08/2026

Every time your foot hits the ground when you take a step, one side of your body is holding you up.

It does it through a system of connected tissue that runs from your up through your IT band, your hip, the side of your ribcage, and into the side of your skull.

Thomas Myers calls this the Lateral Line. It’s your body’s side stabiliser.

When this line is restricted on one side, from old ankle sprains, from always running the same direction on a cambered road, from sitting with your weight shifted to one side for years, the whole body compensates.

That’s why one hip is always tighter. Why one shoulder sits higher. Why you feel yourself collapsing to one side when fatigue in a run.

It’s not a flexibility problem. It’s a line problem.

The good news: when the whole line gets addressed and not just the hip, not just the IT band, the asymmetry often resolves faster than people expect.

Save this. Check your shoulders next time you’re standing still.

31/07/2026

The runner who trains six days a week and the professional who sits at a desk for 10 hours a day come to me with different stories and the same body.

Tight hamstrings. Restrictted lower back. Calves that never fully release.

The runner earned it through load. The professional earned it through stillness. But the Superficial Back Line (the connected tissue running from foot to skull) is under tension in both of them for the same reason.

The system doesn’t care whether you’re covering 50km a week or covering a keyboard.

It accumulates. It restricts. It signals.

The only difference is how long it takes to notice.

Most running injuries aren't random. They're the same system, breaking down at different points. Here's the map.
30/07/2026

Most running injuries aren't random. They're the same system, breaking down at different points. Here's the map.

29/07/2026

If your calves always feel tight no matter how much you stretch them, you could be focusing on the wrong part of the problem.

Here’s what’s actually going on.

Your body has a connected sheet of tissue that runs from the bottom of your foot, up through your calves, behind your knees, up the back of your thighs, along your spine and over the top of your skull.

Thomas Myers, who wrote Anatomy Trains, calls this the Superficial Back Line. It’s one continuous system, not a collection if separate muscles.

When any part of that line is under tension, the whole line gets pulled. Your calves feel it because they sit in the middle of the system. They’re being pulled from both ends. The foot below, the hamstring above.

Three places to address it:
1. Sole of your foot
2. Back of your thighs
3. Your lower back

Save this before your next run.

21/07/2026

The tension you’re carrying this week didn’t start this week. It started weeks ago. It just compounded until you noticed it.

The tension in the upper back, the sleep quality that’s been slightly worse than usual, training sessions feeling harder than they should.

None of these arrive suddenly. They compound slowly from load that wasn’t cleared.

The nervous system doesn’t send a warning before it adjusts your output. It just quietly allocates less to performance and more to management.

The people who catch this earliest aren’t more disciplined than everyone else. They’ve just learned what full capacity feels like and they notice when the gap starts to open.

That’s what consistent recovery protects.

A score in the 6–9 range typically means this:Sleep is happening but not fully restoring. The body is getting horizontal...
21/07/2026

A score in the 6–9 range typically means this:

Sleep is happening but not fully restoring. The body is getting horizontal hours but the nervous system isn't fully downregulating, which means the deep restorative sleep phases are shorter than they should be.

Training or work sessions have less in them than the numbers suggest they should. Not because of fitness or capability but because the body is allocating resources to managing accumulated load rather than performing.

The tissue, when assessed manually, shows restriction patterns that have been there long enough to feel normal. The body has adapted around them rather than clearing them.

This is not a crisis. It's a gap. And it's one of the most addressable things I work with.

If your score landed in this range and you want to know what a session would actually find, that's what a first session is for.

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