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    October 05, 2020

    Flexibility: Moronic Monday 2020-10-05 @ /r/Flexibility

    Moronic Monday 2020-10-05 @ /r/Flexibility

    Posted: 04 Oct 2020 11:07 PM PDT

    Have a "stupid" question and are afraid to ask it? (Or don't want to make a whole thread for it?) Well, feel free to ask away in this thread! There's no such thing as a stupid question. This is also a great opportunity for the rest of the community to help each other out.

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    Enjoy!

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    Here are some hip mobility drills for people who are comfortable in their splits, its very important to activate the range of motion of the hips as well as stretching them.

    Posted: 04 Oct 2020 07:35 AM PDT

    Push-up and Scuttle

    Posted: 05 Oct 2020 12:06 AM PDT

    Hip hinge causes lower hamstring/calf pain

    Posted: 05 Oct 2020 04:14 AM PDT

    When I hip hinge past 30 degrees, I feel a really big stretch/pain on the bottom part of my hamstring plus my calves. I don't really understand mechanically why this is happening. Note that I have anterior pelvic tilt and I cannot touch my toes standing up, in fact, trying to do so also causes calf stretch/pain for me.

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    First time trying this

    Posted: 04 Oct 2020 11:13 AM PDT

    What stretches should I do in order to be able to sit with my legs forward and a straight back, or to do a forward fold

    Posted: 05 Oct 2020 01:12 AM PDT

    I believe it's mainly my leg and back muscles. I can't do a forward fold without bending my knees, I can't sit down with my legs straight and a straight back. As a result, I can't do several stretches that are supposed to help me stretch my legs such as "The simple hamstring stretch". I also can't do yoga poses like downward dog properly.

    I'm trying to do yoga and stretch daily, but most of the exercises that I can find that are meant to loosen your hamstrings require being able to sit down with your legs straight, or to do a forward fold. I've never been able to do that through my entire life. I've tried to get into some routine like this, or even just a calisthenics exercise routine, but then I realise that I'm too stiff, and I try to find some exercises, and I can't do them and I get discouraged and I just give up.

    I understand that you will need to keep your legs straight in order to get the full stretch, and I just need something that can ease me into sitting with my legs straight. After I reach that point, I'm golden, then I'll know exactly what to do. Once I am able to sit with my legs straight, that could be an exercise in it's own right and then I'll be able to start doing several exercises that I want to be able to do.

    I know that there are "toe-touching" and "hamstring flexibility" challenges but I've looked into them, and I just can't find a guide that works for me personally, I've tried them out and it either doesn't give results because it's too simple, or I literally can't do it. I'd consider myself fairly limber *except* for my back and leg muscles since they were neglected when I was a child, but I've been able to put my leg behind my head ever since I was an 8 year old, and I'm 20 now.

    I basically just want a couple of exercises to do daily that will eventually let me do all the exercises I've already mentioned. If I can do a forward fold, I can stretch my hamstrings and my lower back even further and gain even more flexibility, but I need a push in order to get there.

    Any stretches I should include in my daily routine?

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    What kind of exercises can I do to fix my tight hamstrings for grade 1 strain?

    Posted: 04 Oct 2020 07:32 AM PDT

    Hello,

    Recently, I've been diagnosed by my Sports Medicine physician of having a Grade 1 hamstring strain, and he told me the reason why it happened was because of my tight hamstrings.

    He recommended me to start with stretching my hamstrings to improve their flexibility and told me to look up a couple of stretches online. As someone new to stretching and flexibility, I honestly don't know where to begin.

    I thought it would be simply looking up a few exercises and start from there, but the more I read, the more confused I get since right now I thought all that I needed were static stretches, but some say that static stretches don't do anything and that I should focus on dynamic stretches. Others say that none of those two work, and that I should go with PNF. Some say when doing static stretches to hold it for 10-20 secs, others say anything less than 30 has no effect, others say that 60 is the goal, some say that doing static stretches is not actually achieving flexibility and fixing tightness since you only train your neuro system to relax, while others disagree and say that it actually works, etc.

    With all this information around the net, I really don't know who's right and who's wrong, so I was hoping someone with more experience will be able to guide me into what exercises I should do, and how my stretching regime should look like to fix my tight hammies.

    If anyone is willing to help, I'd gladly appreciate it.

    Thanks in forward.

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