Tightness Is a Signal, Not a Sentence

Most people believe their stiff muscles are a structural problem - too short, too tight, just the way their body is. The reality is that most of what feels like tightness is your nervous system applying the brakes. Here is how your joints, tissues, and brain actually negotiate movement, why the mobility gap between what you can do passively and what you control actively is where injuries live, and how to build range that holds up across your whole day rather than disappearing the moment you stand up from your yoga mat.