Resistance Flexibility and Strength Training (RFST)!

Resistance Flexibility and Strength Training (RFST) ®:

• is a revolutionary technique that empowers you to stretch and strengthen your body through the simple use of resistance
• is also known as Resistance Stretching or Meridian Stretching
• shatters the false myth that muscles become more flexible simply by elongating muscles, holding the stretch for whatever period of time, and breathing into the stretch

Resistance Flexibility & Strength Training (RFST) teaches you that:

• in order to get a true gain in flexibility, you must continuously contract the target muscle group while elongating it
• a muscle is only truly flexible to the point where it can continue to maximally resist while being lengthened
• stretching without continuously contracting a muscle produces a false range of motion known as substitution, and ultimately results in over-stretching and injury
• stretches can be reversed to provide strength training to the same muscle group

Resistance Flexibility & Strength Training (RFST) can be performed:

• at any time and any place since no equipment is required
• alone using self-stretches or with other person(s) using assisted stretching techniques
• alone by the stretcher resisting against his/her own body, the ground, a wall, or other props
• by two or more people using assisted stretching, where the stretcher resists the movement of the assister(s) while the assister(s) flex/extend, adduct/abduct, and/or inward/outward rotate the target muscle group

The Meridian Flexibility System ®:

• is a program of 16 powerful stretching exercises for each level of practice: beginner, intermediate, advanced, and assisted
• is rooted in Chinese Medicine and similar to acupuncture and acupressure in that it is based on the various meridian lines that course through the body
• provides 16 different types of stretches, each one uniquely correlated to:
  • 16 meridians
  • 16 major muscle groups
  • 16 organs
  • 16 high and low physical, spiritual, emotional, and psychological traits
  • 16 genetic personality types
  • 16 classical hatha yoga poses
  • 16 body parts / tissues
  • 16 bone rotational interrelationships

The Meridian Flexibility System (MFS):

• embodies a balanced approach to physical and mental fitness
• is a predictable, noninvasive, preventative health program with resulting gains in physical strength and functioning, psychological fitness, and spiritual and emotional development
• emphasizes that there are four aspects of stretching (position, resistance, breathing, and psychological) that correspond to the four aspects of oneself (physical, spiritual, emotional, and mental)
• is based on an overall approach to health and well being
• is rooted in the belief that one cannot be of sound body without sound mind
• allows a person to overcome physical traumas as well as psychological and emotional obstacles