the secret to flexibility
I was wondering if anyone knows the secret to flexibility - I have done yoga 2 hours a day 7 days a week and my hamstrings never gained any flexibility and my hips never opened -- I switched to yin yoga 2 hours a day 7 days a week with the same results ---- the more I stretch the tighter I get -- if I take a couple of weeks off it becomes less painful to straighten my leg ----
am I doing too much ?
do I need recovery time ?
what's the secret ? --- I have gotten absolutely nowhere over several years
I can't even get into a descent pu bu stance - my hips aren't open and my hamstrings aren't flexible at all
I would just like to do my taiji forms better - I cannot get into basic stances or do any of the kicks properly
Flexibility Is A Mountain Climb:Establish Anchor Points EMJ
20 one minute, Stretch-then-Hold-Stretch-at-Leaving, is making a sword-heat-cool-heat let it cool stronger.-Ernie Moore Jr.
Constant stretching is looseness that cannot hold anything. Stretch. Hold. Wait. When done, stretch more. You now established an anchor point. Going beyond at the end gives play in your rope for shortening. But you shorten longer than when you started. You are now more flexible.
If class instruction says stretch-reach-extend go-for it grab out there reach, you have an instructor. But stretching is not Flexibility, it's stretched-ish. improving reach during exercise seems deceptive and temporary. Muscles are like memory foam and return to original length or we might stretch ourselves out. Make the joints more pliable--impossible as joints are connections and themselves are not really anything.-Ernie Moore Jr.
Focus stretches at the end of bones. Massage pelvis-hip and top of knee. Behind knee. Below knee. behind ankles--Achilles tendon. Heel-all around and where toes meet foot. manually move these places gently not hurting much. do it; then stop--establish a return point for your muscles that is beyond when you started.-Ernie Moore Jr.
Flexibility is pliability coupled with strength.-Stages. No 2 hour stretch sessions. That equals one stretch to your body. Do multiple short sessions throughout the day and you will see flexibility.-Ernie Moore Jr.
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