Load isn’t something we add to the body — it’s something the body is always managing. This article reframes stiffness, posture, and fascia by arguing that stillness is a form of load, and often a powerful one.
We’ve been told that fascia can be melted, softened, or released. In reality, it’s a slow, adaptive tissue that changes through load, time, and habit — not through momentary touch.
Anatomy gave us the power to name every part of the body, but in doing so, it dismantled the person.
The thoracolumbar fascia has body wide links and when it stiffens up, the rest of the body will go with it