StretchLab Versus Lastics

In a word, the difference between being stretched and stretching is the delivery. Ultimately, it comes down to service versus instruction. 

StretchLab, Stretch Zone, Stretch*d and others like them offer a passive experience, like massage. You walk in, lie down and have someone move your body around, often while you are strapped to a table.

Lastics is the opposite. It is flexibility training which means you learn active techniques that you use to move your own body. This is the only way you can actually stretch it.  You can’t be stretched any more than you can be strengthened.  It’s analogous to the difference between being driven around as a passenger in a car and you driving yourself to where you want to go. Boiled down, it's the difference between having a chauffeur and getting behind the wheel yourself.

Oddly, flexibility and stretching is the only thing to which this applies. Implicit to no other fitness or athletic conditioning/training is the option to either pay to have it done to you and for you, or pay to learn about what your body needs and find the connections that make it work, and therefore move better.

It's also important to understand assisted stretching. To improve flexibility through an assisted stretch, it needs to be assistance in the truest sense of the word. Not dependence. Meaning, you can’t just lie there and rely on someone else to do all the work. A) That’s not assistance and B) You can’t learn, or more specifically, your body can’t, and won’t learn if you don’t physically and mentally participate.

Stretching isn't just about flexibility and mobility. It's about access. Whether you are an athlete who needs to reach deeper muscles and increase range to kick higher, run faster, throw farther, or someone recovering from injury, surgery or imbalances that impinge movement, meaningful flexibility training like Lastics is your gateway.

If you'd like to experience the Lastics difference, we recommend trying our Daily Stretches. You get a full body stretch in ten short videos, each targeting a specific muscle group. And it's delivered straight into your inbox for free! To learn more, click here >> Daily Stretches