Increasing Flexibility

[CLFMan]

Aside from a stretching program are there any proven supplements that help increase flexibility? Anything on the market that will help?

I see Chondroitin but is that for joints? Will that help? I also heard fish oils might help.

[esox]

Aside from a stretching program are there any proven supplements that help increase flexibility? Anything on the market that will help?

I see Chondroitin but is that for joints? Will that help? I also heard fish oils might help.

fish oils definitely have a massive effect but cannot be tolerated by the average human taste bud, if anybody knows of anything as effective but without the obvious draw backs I may also be interested

[IronWeasel]

fish oils definitely have a massive effect but cannot be tolerated by the average human taste bud, if anybody knows of anything as effective but without the obvious draw backs I may also be interested

Flax seed oil. In the bottle, not the capsules. The one kept in the refrigerator.

2 tablespoons per day will lubricate the joints, and reduce the pain from injuries and arthritis inflammation.

It isn't Delicious....but it isn't too bad, though.

[Lucas]

ive never used either fish oil or flax seed oil.

which has a more potent effect? taste isnt really an issue for me.

[David Jamieson]

Just do your yoga man.

[Lucas]

never!

ill do a yoga woman, but never a yoga man!

[sanjuro_ronin]

Stretching is for gymnast, forms champions and tight assed women in leggings !!

[taai gihk yahn]

don't know about supplements, but in general "tightness" is due to facilitated muscles in a given area: e.g. - hip adductors, hip flexors in the pelvis, hamstrings in the legs, pecs / lats in the shoulders, are typically "tight" due to the way in which we tend to organize biomechanically in gravity, both during normal function and as the result of trying to prevent loss of balance and / or recovering from / compensating for injury) - "stretching" therefore really has more to do w/decreasing the degree of resting hypertonicity in a given muscle then it does w/elongating non-contractile connective tissue (that happens more at the far end of range of a muscle, or if there is genuine joint capsule contracture due to clinical issues (not typically the case in the normal population);

one simple way to manage this is via the good old "contract/relax" method, which, if preceded by putting the target muscle on slack for ~90 sec. before actively stretching it, will typically get you good and lasting results; also, "cleaning up" injuries / imbalances (via manual or exercise therapy) will help a lot as well;

[IronWeasel]

ive never used either fish oil or flax seed oil.

which has a more potent effect? taste isnt really an issue for me.

I've never tried fish oil, but from what I've read it's pretty much the same. Flax seed oil contains omega-3 fatty acids (for increased fat burning), and phyto estrogens (for joint lubrication). I've mega dosed flax oil every day for a five month period...the only effect that I noticed was the pain in my rotator cuff went completely away. Stayed away for a while after as well.

I don't have much fat on me, so I can't attest to it's fat burning qualities.

[Lucas]

i ask mainly not for flexability increase, but i have a couple banged up joints that can be annoying. ive never tried any suppliments to ease the discomfort, but ive been considering it this last year.

[David Jamieson]

Seane Corn is a fairly hot yoga women too.

Not too many ultra sexola pics of her though...surprisingly. lol

[IronWeasel]

i ask mainly not for flexability increase, but i have a couple banged up joints that can be annoying. ive never tried any suppliments to ease the discomfort, but ive been considering it this last year.

If you have rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis, the flax oil should help. Most people I've talked with don't really consider arthritis to be the cause, because they're 'young', in their 30's. But you won't know for sure without testing/MRI, etc.

It's like $9 for a quart, which will last a few months. Well worth looking in to, and if it doesn't help you, you're only out a few bucks.


And it's SO yummy!

[Lucas]

im gonna look into it. thanks

to quote iron mike

'i have some pain im going to have to live with for the rest of my life..'

[taai gihk yahn]

I'm guessing that the flax seed / omega-3's have generalized anti-inflammatory properties, which could certainly explain why someone's chronic joint and / or muscle pain could decrease as a result (RTC often is irritated due to the generally increased mechanical load placed on it, due to it often being required to act as an eccentric decelerator at the shoulder; so it's going to be predisposed towards inflammation);

anyway, that's my sense of it - if I have time I can peruse PubMed for any research related to the above...

[taai gihk yahn]

Seane Corn is a fairly hot yoga women too.

Not too many ultra sexola pics of her though...surprisingly. lol

oh yeah - my wife gets Yoga Journal every month - it's like having "legalized" porn laying around the house ("what? oh, nothing hon, just checking out her alignment, is all...")