Anatomy Trains

These are two lines which needs to be balanced to achieve better upright posture.

Now lets compare these myofascial lines to the lines on the London Tube and Rail System. The London Overground and Northern Tube lines linking the city north to south are like these two lines. Other Myofascial lines outlined in Tom Myers "Anatomy Trains" include the Spiral Line and Deep Front Line. These lines link the body deep and centrally like the Piccadilly Line and the Victoria Line.

If we compared many of our joints to stations, our movements are more flowing and efficient when trains run on time and express trains pass through the station without a delay. 

When you don't use the best routes in the body like a delayed train, or a diverted journey, it takes longer and has more stops and change of trains. These sluggish movements the leaves the body suspectible to injury and weight gain.

A simple example of this is when the body does not use direct lines that run through the core putting strain on lines the distal joints. Eg Sitting at a desk with poor posture, causing neck strain . Also hitting a tennis ball and relying on arm muscles, instead grounding the feet at the point of contact and using the energy transference from ground contact to engage the core as you hit the ball.

Waterloo station would be like the "Abdominal Station" with a network of lines organised like the "Union Jack", up, down, across and diagonal. Delayed trains leads to a less responsive, congested railways like when an inactive core doesn't allow movement to flow. However, when you find a route with less changes and less delays it is like finding better flow in your body.. 

The southern station, Clapham Junction would be the "Hip Station" another busy station that many rely on to get to South London and beyond. It’s not as central but many lines converge here, just like many myofascial lines do and they need to run efficiently if you want to move your legs efficiently in many motions. 

This hip station also gives you better access to "the boot on the UK map" (Cornwell being the foot). If you dont use Clapham to the get to the boot, you have less options to travel to these areas.

You would simply feel sluggish and heading for pain if the bodies railway system, didn't run on time or breakdown constantly.

Once your body masters a more fluid walking style or dance routine, it’s like discovering a new routes on the underground that takes half the time, arriving at your destination feeling more refreshed and ready for the next move.