Pliability describes the state in which your muscles are long, soft, and resilient, enabling them to absorb and disperse forces — in both sport and daily life — and operate efficiently. Unlike short and dense muscles, pliable muscles allow you to perform and train at your best while avoiding injury.

What causes muscle pliability?

The intense repetitive use of muscle tissue during training causes muscle fibers to become tight, rigid and less pliable over time, making them prone to injury.

Is muscle pliability a real thing?

Both experts agreed that muscle pliability is an ambiguous term and could mean many different things. They also agreed that it's likely an umbrella term for several qualities, including flexibility, mobility, neural tone and length-tension relationship. Flexibility refers to a muscle's ability to lengthen.