Negative Rep's tightening the fascia?

[Test_Eagles]

Hey guys, lurk around here alot and there is good advice on this forum so was just curious about something I read. Have been going through journal articles for a paper and eventually got sidetracked into a few papers on eccentric training. One was a lit review which said;

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Review

Is eccentricnext term muscle previous termcontractionnext term a significant factor in the development of chronic anterior compartment syndrome? A review of the literature

(The rest of the article isnt really important but it finishes with this line)

The long term effect of excessive previous termeccentric contractionnext term is believed to be a reduction of compliance in and loss of elasticity of the fascia, which is probably irreversible.

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This surprised me a bit esp having read through all 30 pages of synthol thread and seeing the effort it takes to untighten fascia and what a problem tight fascia can be. I would say 2/3 of my lifting is negatives, especially chest and bi's. I like them because they're ~lighter (easier on joints), sets are longer and the is no rest on the downstroke and they hurt alot more than positives.

They are saying in the article when the cylindrical compartment narrows during the rep, straining the fascia, reducing compliance, results in increases intramuscular pressure. The fascia has to adapt to this added strain and pressure by becoming stronger and tougher (ie less compliant),

Just wondering if any of you have experience w/this. Would you agree and not do as many negatives for this reason? Do you think it is ok for me doing so much of my program as negatives?

Thanks.

 

[KillerStack]

I haven't seen any scientific evidence that the fascia restricts muscle growth. It might, just haven't seen anything showing it to be a restrictive factor in hypertrophy. Anyone have something showing this?

 

[tkav1980]

wouldnt doing DC stretches help stretch the facia and counter act this tighening if id does occur?

 

[blackhole2]

This is the fascia people

http://www.anatomytrains.com/

I just finished the 3 series and my body shifted to a much better place, I highly recommend it if you can afford and have tolerance for pain.

My threshold is high and that helped me a lot as the practitioner could go as deep as necessary.

They have a forum in the site maybe you can ask more questions there.