This is what everyone needs to understand about fascia. When it’s dehydrated, it collapses under pressure. When that happens, muscles lose support, elasticity disappears, force leaks, and the system breaks down under stress instead of rebounding from it.

 

What most people think is good for fascia, passive stretching, long holds, and low load mobility work, is often the opposite of what’s needed. Pulling on a dry system doesn’t restore elasticity. It just lengthens tissue that can’t spring back.

 

Hydrated fascia behaves differently. It holds pressure, resists gravity, connects muscles into a unified system, and allows energy, force, and lymph to move efficiently. This is why movement that restores hydration, tension, and elastic recoil changes how the body feels and performs. You don’t fix a wilted system by pulling on it and making it looser.

You restore function by rebuilding the conditions that allow the body to push, pull, and sling itself through space. You restore crimp in the fascia by training in relation to the FP First Four. Shoutout to FP HBS practitioners @jen.calleja and @derekdiesel_ for some real hydration nation movement.