
NEW: Ending Muscle
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Drive Trains:
Much as your car's motor applies the force that turns its gears, U-joints, axles, wheels and tires, your core mobility muscles crank out the force that first swings your hips, then gets turned by the knees to go down tough hundreds of little bones muscles and joints below, where it finally meets most motion resistance under our feet.
Unlike a car, core running power is not yet increasable by bolting on new parts, muscle cells need to be damaged from overwork, which causes them to heal to a stronger state. Exercise does not make muscles stronger, healing from it does. However joints don't share this magic and do not heal stronger, so efficient exercise would only damage muscle cells, not joints.
Just like any machine, our mobility power can only push as hard as its weakest fully loaded link. Once well conditioned, our core power is our strongest link, so as long as we use running to build running strength we can never come even remotely close to maximizing core power potential, because a hundred far weaker parts will now fail first.
Just as cars have sensors that warn of pending damage, our joints also act as very accurate sensors that measure load stress by increasing pain. Our brain then holds the core power output below their breaking points. An easy way to see this is that a large athlete's knee will instantly buckle if their brain allowed them to run at full hip motion range.
All drive trains will break (or hit a "plateau") at their weakest link, great athletes have stronger weak links. But the strongest knees are still no match for the far stronger hips above them. However, we keep wasting well over 90% of the muscle cell strengthening resistance forces by dissipating them into joints, and spinal disks as compression and impact, instead of just hindering core contractions.
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