Flexibility: I don’t how it happened, but after 4 months of on/off stretching today I finally placed my palms on the floor! |
- I don’t how it happened, but after 4 months of on/off stretching today I finally placed my palms on the floor!
- Best Fat Burning Yoga Poses For Weight Loss And Easily for Beginners :Yoga - Basic of Science
- Need help on mobility as an athlete.
- PSA: fix your shoulder alignment in your backbends!
- Does anyone else have a strong ache in the pit of their groin when training adductors?
- Starting with a Goal
- I need help verifying a modifcation I did to lying butterfly stretch is actually correct
| Posted: 06 Jun 2021 01:36 PM PDT
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| Best Fat Burning Yoga Poses For Weight Loss And Easily for Beginners :Yoga - Basic of Science Posted: 07 Jun 2021 03:34 AM PDT
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| Need help on mobility as an athlete. Posted: 06 Jun 2021 11:35 PM PDT Im a track (400m) runner in highschool, and I often find myself very tight in my lower body and although I stretch often, I still am not very flexible at all and I really want to change this. I can barely touch my toes from a standing position and I really want to be more flexible/mobile in general. How do I start improving? Any advice will be greatly appreciated. [link] [comments] | ||
| PSA: fix your shoulder alignment in your backbends! Posted: 06 Jun 2021 10:14 AM PDT ** Disclaimer: I'm not a physical therapist, coach, or any kind of anatomy expert, just a regular person trying to improve my backbends ** I've been practicing backbends on and off for years and always found them incredibly frustrating, largely because I always felt like I was being limited by terrible overhead shoulder flexibility. I was doing everything I could possibly think of—foam rolling, thoracic extensions, puppy pose, overhead shoulder stretches against the wall, pec stretches in the door frame—and while my spinal flexibility did improve, I felt like I never saw any real change in my shoulders. I couldn't even tell what muscles were restricting me, just that it felt tight and painful and like I was about to injure myself. I recently discovered a form cue that has totally changed my life in backbends, and I wanted to share it with anyone who may not know. The tip is to shrug your shoulders toward your ears. By doing this, you are lengthening your arms and putting more of the stretch in the front of your body and your pectoral muscles, rather than putting all the pressure on your shoulder joints (or at least that's what it feels like to me). I have started using this cue in all of my shoulder and upper back stretches, and I honestly can't believe what a difference has made. In the photos above, you can see what my wheel pose looked like before (above) and after (below) shrugging my shoulders. These two photos were taken one day apart so there's no significant improvement in my flexibility—the only real difference is in the shoulder positioning. In the after photo, there isn't as much of a "fold" right around my delts and I can elongate my arms better, which allows me to push further into the actual spine. Shrugging my shoulders also makes the stretch feel much better and less painful, since I can push into my upper back better and take some of the compression out of my lower back. Clearly, I still have a long way to go, and my shoulders and upper back still need a lot of work. But at least now I know why the stretches I was doing before weren't working, and how to fix my position so that I'm stretching the muscles I actually need to stretch. I finally feel confident that I can start making some progress in my backbends and shoulder flexibility without injuring myself. Sharing for anyone who may be experiencing this same issue! [link] [comments] | ||
| Does anyone else have a strong ache in the pit of their groin when training adductors? Posted: 06 Jun 2021 04:34 PM PDT Whenever I do certain adductor stretches, I get a pretty strong ache that restricts my range of motion. Specifically in positions like the horse stance, I'll get a pretty strong soreness after training. Or when trying to spread my legs apart with bent knees, my ROM hits a wall accompanied by that deep ache. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 06 Jun 2021 05:00 PM PDT I'm just starting to work on flexibility specifically, and I want to build proper foundations on general flexibility, but I also have a particular goal of doing a back bridge. What I'm unsure of is at what point to incorporate specific work towards that goal, and also perhaps good resources on how to build to it (I see a bunch of squat, toe-touching, and splits resources here but not any for bridges) [link] [comments] | ||
| I need help verifying a modifcation I did to lying butterfly stretch is actually correct Posted: 06 Jun 2021 11:22 AM PDT I have been doing the lying butterfly stretch (mainly peri-sleep time). Recently I made a modification to it and to me it seemed to be more effective. The modification I did was to NOT bend my knees so much. By slightly extending my knees and thus distancing my soles away from my groin, I felt like gravity naturally pulls down my inner thigh and hip, creating a much better stretch. I am not sure if this is right tho. Can anyone help me verify that I am doing the right thing? Thank you! [link] [comments] |
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