In recent years, the concept of sports and fitness has become more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and everyone has become more and more aware of the importance of health, and in sports, we can often hear a word - fascia, in fact, all sports are inextricably linked with fascia. Focusing on the research of "sports health", Academician Zhu Weimo, chief scientist of iREST Allister, academician of the American Academy of Sports Sciences, and president of Yunnan Plateau Hot Spring Health Care Industry Innovation Research Institute, who focuses on physical exercise, wrote in "Fascia: Into the Hot Rookie of Fitness! uses research data to detail the importance of fascia and how to do fascial exercises. 
01What is fascia? Fascia is the most common type of tissue in the body, which connects human joints and muscle tissues, and has a restraining and protective effect on motor tissues such as joints and muscles, just like a viscous tissue network intertwined between body structures, wrapping muscles, nerves, tendons and ligaments, and giving them shape.
This net can not only affect the strength of the whole body, support the body, assist in running, jumping, squatting and other movements, but also sensitively sense the nerves and feedback to the body in time, such as transmitting pain. 
Academician Zhu mentioned that new research suggests that focusing on fascial health may help with chronic pain, improve athletic performance and overall health. A healthy fascia is like an "elastic spring", which is the key to effective exercise, and if there is an injury, the body will feel all kinds of discomfort, generally because of the poor elasticity of the fascia, which causes the muscle fibers to tighten during exercise. 
If you don't exercise for a long time, the fascia loses its elasticity, the protective effect on muscles and other tissues is reduced, the muscles are more likely to be damaged, and the pain in various parts of the body will increase. 02Improve the elasticity of fascia and help your healthAfter in-depth study of fascial movement, Academician Zhu Weimo gave the answer to how to maintain and train the fascia: the most effective way to keep the fascia strong and elastic is to exercise regularly! Stretching, yoga, and aerobics are all effective in helping to stretch the fascia and improve fascial elasticity, also known as fascial exercises. Helps reduce stress
Academician Zhu mentioned in the article that some studies have found that fascia, as a part of the nerve receptor, will affect people's mood, and when the muscles and bones are stretched, the mood will become comfortable. In the slow movement and soft rhythm of fascial movement, many people will involuntarily slow down the pace of life, which reduces the pressure brought by work and life to a certain extent. Adjust immunityFascial fitness is a low-load, slow-paced workout that is highly accepted by the body, and good fitness can also be achieved by stimulating the fascia. This is because fascia is connected to all the systems of the body, and its strength can provide nutrients to the organs, which has a positive effect on the immune system. 
For exercisers, fascial training can enhance endurance, improve flexibility, improve movement fluency and coordination, and speed up the body's recovery, so that they can get into the next phase of training as quickly as possible to meet the challenges of higher loads. That's why it's important to stretch after every workout, as it increases joint flexibility and reduces fatigue and pain after exercise. Academician Zhu Weimo, who focuses on the research in the field of "sports health", explained in a previous interview that exercise and massage complement each other, and that massage, as a way of fascial exercise, can promote the body's self-repair and regeneration, and improve fascial health. The use of assistive motor tools, such as fascia guns, can also help the fascia relax, temporarily relieving fascial pain and improving flexibility by "altering some of the hydrodynamics of the localized area." 
After a certain understanding of the fascia, then do the corresponding training and exercise, let the fascia gun relax deeply, increase the health of the fascia, and explore the new fun of your body and movements together.