- Still trucking along: splits progress over 3 months. After years of being the least flexible person ever I'm starting to believe it's in reach, thanks to persistence and helpful tips from this sub.
- Wall Variation of Wheel Pose ��
- My over-toe :) one of the things that I find really impressive but I rarely see any pictures on.
- Would you call this functional bodybuilding? Single leg RDL with row. Its essentially a hamstring stretch with a dumbbell row.
- Daily mobility routine for your joints. After completing the FRC course, I decided to put this video together for anyone wanting to know what CARs are and how to apply this method to yours and your clients training.
- Hey flexibility-seekers! So this video isn't strictly flexibility related... but who isn't getting into a funk more often these days?! So for the year that's been, and continues to be, here's a yoga practice that will help you to gain flexibility AND help you to get out of a funk.
- "mild discomfort"
- Feedback and form check
- I was going to yoga 3 times a week pre covid, i can not seem to do it on my own, how are others coping with no in person classes?
- Gray Cook Toe Touch Progression: What to follow up with?
- Please help with t spine flexibility!
- Best Hip Openers To Increase Flexibility | 25 min Yoga Flow | For Tight Legs & Hips
- When do you know that anatomy is a limiting factor?
- What muscle did I pull?
- Can someone help me understand how to close the gap between passive and active flexibility?
- Stuck on straddle pancake
- hip cracking and pain after stretching
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| Posted: 03 Nov 2020 12:11 AM PST I have no idea what people who make videos or write about stretching mean when they say mild discomfort and not pain. When I attempt to touch my toes, which I can't :'(, it goes from feeling absolutely fine and normal to hurts a little bit. maybe I am a waterhead and can't stop going deeper into the stretch without going too far, or I'm just in terrible shape, but each stretch sorta hurts, or I feel like it's not doing anything, so it always hurts it's never too far like a very sharp pain, but right as I feel the stretching sensation in whatever muscle, which is always slightly painful anyhow Im just worried I'm retarded and I'm going to have sore legs because I've been doing it this way for days [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 03 Nov 2020 03:24 AM PST Would appreciate any feedback on my form. Are my hips squared? It's taken me about two months(two to three days per week) of stretching to get here. Thanks. [link] [comments] | ||
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| Gray Cook Toe Touch Progression: What to follow up with? Posted: 02 Nov 2020 11:54 PM PST Hey /r/flexibility, I'm starting to work through your getting started guide. I found Gray Cook's Toe Touch Progression, and his explanation of it being more of a habit/pattern problem rather than an ability/fitness issue makes sense to me. There's several explanations of the exercise and I think I understand how to do it, but it sounds like you're supposed to follow it up with "reprogramming" exercises to help build a new habit. In this explanation, he says you can work from a quadruped or kneeling position as examples, but doesn't give any specific examples or what the appropriate level of intensity, etc is. (In that video, he mentions a Leg Lowering Progression, I'm about to look into that, but does anyone know anything about that?) It makes sense to me that I would have some kind of habitual barrier, because I went from being quite sedentary up until my 20s before starting activities like martial arts that are generally associated with flexibility. But my hips/hamstrings etc, have just always been locked up and I haven't been able to figure it out. [link] [comments] | ||
| Please help with t spine flexibility! Posted: 02 Nov 2020 08:08 PM PST I tried absolutely everything to increase my upper back (thoracic spine) flexibility but nothing is working. (Not even little progress) I have really muscular upper back and shoulders and this might make it harder, but please give me tips! My upper back and shoulders are tighter than anything in this world and nothing is increasing their flexibility [link] [comments] | ||
| Best Hip Openers To Increase Flexibility | 25 min Yoga Flow | For Tight Legs & Hips Posted: 02 Nov 2020 03:33 PM PST
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| When do you know that anatomy is a limiting factor? Posted: 02 Nov 2020 08:05 PM PST As I work towards getting my squat narrower and deeper I've been curious if/when anatomy will be my roadblock; especially when it comes to doing pistol squats. Is there a discernable point wherein anatomy or bodyfat will prevent you from making any flexibility gains? I feel like I'm able to make consistent gains in flexibility for other movements (splits, bridges, etc) but not so much with the, feet together, deep squat. I figure I can just keep persisting and stretch. Has anyone here actually reached that point where the stretching won't make up for too much midsection fat or anatomical disadvantages? [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 02 Nov 2020 03:50 PM PST I used to have my middle split / pancake completely flat to the ground no problem. I slid into it too fast one day and felt a sharp pull in my right leg , almost a year later and I still can't attempt a middle split without pain. I am able to do frog pose, front splits on both legs , dancers pose just fine. I initially thought it was my adductor but wouldn't that cause me pain in frog pose? I feel it kind of at the top of my hamstring / groin and behind the back of my knee only when attempting pancake or middle splits, virtually no pain in every other stretch that I do frequently. Any idea what muscle I injured ? How I can help it to recover ? [link] [comments] | ||
| Can someone help me understand how to close the gap between passive and active flexibility? Posted: 02 Nov 2020 02:16 AM PST In relation to the following two example flexibility movements: (1) Wrist extension (2) Hip flexion (aka. Leg extension, which crosses over to a pike/forward fold) From my current understanding: • Training active flexibility for (1) would be strengthening the wrist extensors via something like, reverse dumbbell curls. For (2) that would require active leg raises from floor or standing, strengthening the hip flexors. • Why would strengthening these muscles groups in and of itself equate to increased flexibility of the antagonist muscle? This logic would assume that all bodybuilders with huge biceps would have incredibly flexible triceps as a result of their bicep work? This has been bugging me for months. Hope someone can finally clear this up for me. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 02 Nov 2020 10:59 AM PST Dear lovely redditors, For a while (~8 month), I have been more seriously working on developing flexibility. I mainly focused on the major culprit(s), my hamstrings, and now I can (with some effort) put my palms on the ground. Although my hamstring flexibility has definitely improved, I'm still relying quit heavily on bending the back. I have also been working on my side splits, which are steadily improving. My Stretching Routine - Morning: General 'waking up' yoga routine with downward dog, dolphin, sfinx, pigeon, runners lunge, yogi squat and some extras - After strength workout: 2x5 + 30s hold Jefferson curl (16 Kg) 2x10 Weighted horse stance squats (10 Kg) Frog - Evening (3x p/w): All ballistic + hold (~60s) Front squat Wall side split Side split Butterfly Frog The reason, however, I have created this post is because I am struggling with the straddle pancake stretch. I can barely sit in a staff pose with a straight back, let alone the pancake stretch. I have watched plenty of videos online with beginner pancake stretches, such as the elevated or standing variant. Whatever I try, I always seem to bend in my back and I fail to activate the proper muscles. Does anyone have tips for how to activate the right muscles in the pancake, or knows about alternative stretches which I haven't mentioned? Any help is appreciated! Thanks :) [link] [comments] | ||
| hip cracking and pain after stretching Posted: 02 Nov 2020 09:05 AM PST so i was stretching my hips ( this https://imgur.com/a/LHuvPSC ) because i read somwhere that if stretch my hip the hip cracking will be fixed , but after i stretched i got nerve pain around my hips and down to my left leg and its 2 months ago i did it.. how can i fix my hip nerve pain around my hips and down the leg and hip cracking, when i standing abb roll, when i lay down sit, etc ? [link] [comments] |
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