Hey there.
This is Jonathan with another good life project.
Riff the name of today's Rif.
Align, then build.
It's 2007.
I'm devouring every fitness and therapeutic certification that I can find.
So I stumble upon this thing called the Agoscu method.
It was created by a guy named Pete Agoscu.
Most pain, says Pete, is the result of what he calls postural dysfunction.
There are eight major load bearing joints in the your ankles, knees, hips and shoulders.
When those don't stack on top of each other properly, they load the muscles and connective tissue in a way that they were never intended to be loaded.
And that puts stress on them.
Sometimes immediate and acute.
But more often it's this slow, chronic build of that stress.
Over time, things start to twist and torque and rise and rotate, all in an attempt to keep you upright and to keep your head looking forward.
Now that puts even more strain on muscles and connective tissue that have to work harder and harder in ways never tended.
Eventually, this becomes pain.
Now heres where it gets interesting.
A lot of people will say, oh, youve got lower back pain.
You need to strengthen your abs to support your back, and itll go away, or you need to strengthen this or that or the other muscle.