Dynamic Contraction Technique (DCT) - What is Biotensegrity?

dynamiccontractiontechnique.com Biotensegrity was coined off of a type of engineering structure called a tensegrity structure. These structures contain no joints at all. Instead of joints, there were cables or lines of tension that held the wood or the metal together.
In order to hold the structure together stably, those lines of tension have to be perfectly balanced. It's called a closed system of tension, meaning that if anyone of the cables were cut and the system were opened, the entire structure would fail.
If you take this concept of tensegrity and apply it to the human body, seeing the muscles and connective tissue as the cables and the bones as the wood or metal struts of a structure, you get the same closed system of tension creating tensegrity within the body. When we’re talking about the human body in this way, we call it biotensegrity.
Biotensegrity is all about having a balance between strength and mobility or strength and flexibility.
If we train our bodies too much in just one activity, we're going to pull our bodies out of tensegrity.
For example, say you’re only activity is to take five spin classes a week. You’ll make all the muscles in the front of the body extremely tight, which will start to pull the body forward and contort the posture. It can get so extreme that you could one day stand up and rupture a disc in your back, all because you've lost the balance of strength on the posterior side of the body and flexibility on the front side of your body.

With DCT, biotensegrity is our primary concern. When we assess and analyze the body using either real-time diagnostics or by looking at your posture, we are looking for the muscles that have either become too weak and aren't holding you in a good tensegral position, or become too tight and too strong compared to the rest of the system.
In an ideal situation, when we balance strength and flexibility across the joints of your body, it creates what we call a floating joint. Remember, in a tensegrity structure, the joints don't touch, so the bones don't touch. They're held by these lines of tension, or by the muscles and connective tissue. When there's perfect balance across a joint, the bones are floating. They're floating because they're being held by the connective tissue and the muscles.
There's cartilage between the bones that are meant to protect from pounding and grinding. When you have perfect biotensegrity, the cartilage barely touches. It's like a floating instead of rubbing or grinding.

That's why someone in their 90s could have no cartilage damage in their knees, for instance. If they've done a really good job of keeping balanced biotensegrity and they avoided rigorous pounding from aggressive activity their whole life, they can have very healthy cartilage. Conversely, you can have a 19-year-old with very worn cartilage. Such was the case with me, where at 19 I had worn down the cartilage all the way to the bone because of terrible alignment in my knee from being very inflexible from a young age.
At first, biotensegrity may seem strange, but it will make sense to you as you progress through these workouts and the DCT program.
You should start to feel your body changing, and you’ll notice a rebalancing across your joints. You will start to identify what it feels like to have a floating joint because all of your chronic pain and achiness and discomfort is going to disappear. Biotensegrity will become more complicated when we start getting into muscle tension versus fascia tension, which is in our next chapter, but this introduction should serve you well for now.
Our bodies are not meant to be resting bone to bone. When we can learn a technique and a method to mitigate imbalances in tension or weakness, we can actually restore and rejuvenate our bodies.
When you begin your program, you should actually feel like you're moving backward in time, like your body is getting more youthful. That’s what you’ll experience when your alignment is returning to what it used to be before you pulled all that tension in. It will be an invigorating experience for you.
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[@soloudal3106]

Interesting video your a genius man, I need to keep studying this

[@dsk1769]

A student of biotensegrity, weighing 150 pounds and standing 5'5" tall, has asked me to apply a horizontal load of 10 pounds at shoulder level and his frame demonstrates movement and instability. He then has asked me to apply a horizontal load five times greater and his frame shows no sign off collapse or movement. He claims it is the principles of biotensegrity at work which makes it possible. How can I acquire this phenomenon?

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[@susanlowelldesolorzano9623]

@@DynamicContractionTechnique SoLoudAI3, Tom Flemons' Skwish tensegrity toy is available from Manhattan Toys. Just be aware that for a long-term study of biotensegrity / tensegrity in biology, you'll need a tensegrity with non-extensible cables. Check out biotensegrity.com and tensegrityinbiology.co.uk for more on biotensegrity!

[@strengthstretching]

@@susanlowelldesolorzano9623 Thanks Susan.

[@flexibilityresearch]

Stretching does not cause "wear and tear" or bones to touch. Flexibility can be improved to high levels without any unnecessary tools. Furthermore, biotensegrity is a fundamentally flawed concept (bones do not "float" within muscles).