Hans Schokkenbroek

Your 2-Minute Fascia Checklist

12 signs your body is running on tension, not vitality, and what each one is telling you to do next.

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You train hard, sleep enough, eat well, and still wake up tight. Your shoulders sit up near your ears. Your hips feel like they belong to someone twenty years older. That's not aging. That's fascia holding onto every deadline, every long flight, every meeting you white-knuckled through.

Why High Performers Miss This

You are good at pushing through. That's exactly why this goes unnoticed. Fascia is the connective webbing wrapped around every muscle, organ, and joint in your body. When it's hydrated and loose, force moves through you cleanly. When it's stressed and dehydrated, it stiffens, and everything from your golf swing to your decision-making runs through more resistance than it should.

The twelve signs below aren't symptoms you treat one at a time. They're a map of where tension has taken up residence. Score yourself honestly, not as you were five years ago.

The 12 Signs, Scored 0-2 Each

For each sign, pick a score: 0 (rarely), 1 (sometimes), or 2 (most days). Your total updates automatically.

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Jaw or teeth clenching, especially during calls or under deadline

Shoulders creeping toward your ears without you noticing until they ache

Shallow, upper-chest breathing instead of breath that drops into your belly

Hip and low-back stiffness after sitting in meetings or on flights

Waking up already tired, regardless of hours slept

A neck that won't fully rotate one direction without discomfort

Gripping the steering wheel or mouse harder than the task requires

Digestive tightness, a gut that reacts to stress before food

A face that looks tired in photos even on good days

Recovery from workouts taking longer than it used to

Racing thoughts at night your body won't let go of the day

A sense of performing below your actual capacity, like something is capped

Total Score 0

Do this

Score yourself on all 12 before reading further. Don't average or round in your favor.

What Your Score Means

Your total updates live as you answer above (range: 0-24).

0-6

Loose and resourced. Fascia is doing its job. Maintain with the reset in section 5.

7-12

Early tension load. Recovery is starting to lag behind output. Worth addressing now.

13-18

Chronic holding pattern. Your body has built armor around stress you haven't released.

19-24

Running on tension, not vitality. This is the pattern a Fascia Reset is built for.

Where Tension Actually Lives in Your Schedule

The pattern doesn't start in your body. It starts in how your week is built:

Back-to-back calls with no transition keep your nervous system in the "on" position all day
Flights and long drives compress your hips and low back into the same position for hours
Decision fatigue late in the day shows up first as a tight jaw and shallow breath
Training hard without a release practice builds strength on top of stiffness instead of clearing it

Do this

Identify which of these four patterns hit hardest this week. That's the one to match against your Starter Releases next, not the one to push through.

Your 3 Starter Releases

The more boxes you checked, the more these three will help. Fifteen minutes a day, for one week, is enough to notice a difference.

Palate Swipe

Releases jaw and facial tension, calms mental chatter, and expands the breath. The fastest way to tell your nervous system it is safe.

Totally Twisted

Wrings accumulated stress out of the whole body, decompresses the spine and organs, and releases feel-good hormones.

Anti Gravity

Relieves pressure between the vertebrae, stimulates digestion, and shifts you into rest-and-repair mode.

When a Self-Reset Isn't Enough

Daily practice loosens surface tension. It won't touch the deeper holding patterns that built up over years of pushing through, especially if your score landed above 12. That's fascia work done with guided hands, not stretching alone.

A single 2-hour session gives you a full fascial assessment and immediate, felt release. The 3-session Fascia Reset is built for people whose score put them in the chronic or high-tension range, and it's designed to dissolve the pattern, not manage it session by session.

Know your score.
Now do something with it.

Book a free discovery call with Hans. No obligation, just a conversation about what your score means and whether a single session or the Fascia Reset is the right next step.

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