For top athletes, the most important ability is not a single outstanding performance, but the ability to keep playing.
Body care follows the same idea. Rather than creating temporary dramatic changes, maintaining a condition where the body can move consistently day after day is what matters most.
Instead of doing something special, the focus is simply on removing what is unnecessary.
That is how I approach body care.
Kiichiro Sports Body Care NYC specializes in creating "The Space".
What do we mean by “The Space?”
This is because the shape of the paper cup (conical) is very stable and can exert a great deal of power, even though the contents are empty. I like to refer to this empty structure as “The Space.” When “The Space” is adjusted properly, an object will be stable.
A building, an airplane, a ship, they are very stable because of “The Space.” To support an object, Empty structure is stronger than substance like muscle and pillar.
A good shaped paper cup is the same as a loosened muscle.
A crushed paper cup is the same as a contracted muscle.
When you have your muscles loosened (good shaped paper cup), they make “The Space” bigger, and you will feel change in your body.
Pushing at 100% every day can sometimes produce good short-term results, but it may also place extra strain on the body.
In both daily life and sports, constantly chasing the limit is not always the goal. At Kiichiro Sports Body Care NYC, we believe it is important to keep moving in a sustainable, balanced way.
By balancing the space in the body, unnecessary strain is reduced and movement becomes more natural.
As a result, fluctuations in physical condition become smaller, leading to a state where the body can keep moving over time.
“Isn't it possible to lose strength when your muscles are loose?"
It is actually quite the opposite. When the muscles are relaxed, the helical chain can be used effectively, and the more relaxed you are, the more force you can exert.
Generally, it is said that muscle will contract when you apply force. But I believe muscle exerts several times the power when expanded. To expand your muscle, you need loose muscle. And this expanded muscle kinetic chain will improve your athletic performance.
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The method of care is quite simple.
Light touch, stroke, or shake on the acupuncture points - If you can do this, your muscles will instantly relax.
I have had a lot of opportunities to have sessions with very famous massage therapists and acupuncturists who are called “God Hand” in Japan. Their common point is extremely light touch. They said the pressure points are in our skin.
In Japan, it is said that「武医同術」. Meaning, old manners of martial art and medicine have the same technique. In Japanese martial art, they touch opponent’s skin, it makes opponent’s muscles loosen, and weaken. That is how they can defeat a man twice their size.
In the same way, I can touch your skin, it makes your muscles loosen, It makes “The Space” bigger.
If you have some trouble in your body, you will seek “Cure.”
A “Cure” can be achieved by a doctor or a specialist. But, if you don’t use your body in the right way, your body will have trouble again.
The most important thing is “Care” of yourself.
“Care” is the better way than “Cure”
Brushing your teeth is better than the “Cure” of removing your teeth.
Kiichir do Sports body care is the place to help you to take care of yourself.
Muscles on the back of your neck will loosen up quickly by lightly rotating the arm.
One of the biggest myths for stiff shoulders—--it doesn't loosen even if you massage your shoulders. Relaxing the pectoralis major (chest muscles) also relaxes the shoulder muscles.
Another secret is that neck and shoulder pain can be relieved by relaxing the arm muscles.
Relaxing the muscles around your ribs will not only help you breathe deeper, but it will also improve the movement of your shoulder blades.
The quadriceps can be relaxed by rotating the hip joint.
When you loosen your ankle, your calf will also loosen instantly.
I don't massage the soles of your feet with a strong pressure. Instead, just a light touch will loosen them up quickly.
Adductor muscle pain is common among athletes. Pain in adductor muscles is often relieved by loosening the posterior tibialis muscles on the inside of the shin.
I used to encourage stretching, but no longer recommending that to my clients.
Relaxing the muscles of mastication (chewing muscles) can loosen muscles throughout the body, such as the neck, shoulders, and hip joints.
The muscles around the buttocks are easily loosened by spiraling the hip joints.
The iliotibial ligament (on the outside of the thigh) does not loosen by massage. When you treat your hip joint, you can loosen it up like a charm.
The quadratus lumbar muscle in the back of the waist does not loosen by massage. You need to loosen the psoas major muscle in front of the hip joint.
Even if there is pain in the shoulder, back, or hip, the cause is often in the chest.This is why I don't ask you to lie in the prone position and massage your back.
Instead, I often ask my client to lie on their stomach and lightly touch their arm muscles to loosen the latissimus dorsi muscles.
I do not press hard on the neck as shown in the photo. Treatment is performed with a super soft touch. “Super Soft Touch”is the key.
The quadratus lumborum muscle that I mentioned earlier is loosened by loosening the muscle called the psoas major muscle on the abdominal side.
However, the psoas major muscle cannot be directly stimulated because it lies deep in the abdomen. Instead, I'm going to loosen your hip joint in the spiral motion and shake it gently.
Born in Okayama, Japan on Sep 22, 1979
Just by shaking my arms lightly, the tension in my shoulder muscles was removed and my shoulder blades became soft and flexible. I used to have pain in my lower back, but my hip joints have become softer, my body has become lighter, and I no longer feel pain.
I saw Kiichiro because I had a pain in my hip joint. I was pleasantly surprised that the pain was gone just by lightly touching and stroking the part of my body other than the hip joint. He doesn't press or knead strongly, so I don't have pain from the massage the next day.
At first, I asked for treatment for my strained back. A light treatment on the neck relieved most of the pain, and a treatment on the leg from the hip joint relieved the pain. Now I rarely have pain. I ask for treatments once every few months as maintenance. When you loosen your muscles, your body feels lighter as if you were floating.
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