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How Long Does It Take To Do a Split
Anatomical animated picture lying on the floor demostrating External and internal Hip Rotation
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Long Plateau and Injuries during Splits: [Case Study]
Long plateau and injuries during splits can be solved with ZST muscle isolation. Case Study. If you’re one of the people that is using regular stretching techniques and you are not getting results or you are getting uninjured. This case study might give you an idea of what could be happening. One of the people…
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Shoulder Injuries? Scapula mobilization may be the reason why…
Overhead shoulder flexibility training and shoulder injuries when the scapula is not properly mobilized. This blog post is in response to questions about the previous blog post where I talked about shoulder flexibility and correlation to neck and head pain. I mentioned that there could be shoulder injuries when shoulder girdle and shoulder joint are stretched as…
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Neck Pain? Neck Stiffness? Headaches? This may be the reason why…
I have noticed a pattern between tight shoulders, tight shoulder girdle muscles with neck pain or neck stiffness and headaches. The goal of this article is to get you to pay attention to your body and check this correlation for yourself to see if indeed you notice this link in your body. There are people…
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The Handstand Secrets
You are not going to get a good handstand unless you have the following prerequisites. This should not come as a surprise to you that. If you don’t have an appropriate range of motion in your wrist you’re going to have a very tough time learning the handstand. A while back, a yoga teacher that…
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True Front Split: Stop Cheating Yourself
You think you’re doing a split but you’re not! Stop cheating yourself! 10 issues that are preventing you from doing a True Front Split, reasons and solutions. If you have been faking a split, you’re only cheating yourself. Here’s how to see if your True Front Split is fake or real. I decided to write this…
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Advantages of isolating muscles when stretching vs stretching multiple muscles at the same time.
Like many other blog posts this one comes from repeated questions that I would like to answer. First of all, what is the difference between an isolated stretch versus non-isolated stretch? Let’s look at concrete examples: A standard lunge stretch which targets a “hip flexor” is a non-isolated stretch. When you do a lunge, whether…
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Proper Stretching Order of 4 Hip Muscle Groups. Can You Stretch Them All At The Same Time?
How do I open my hips? I get this question a lot and since I’ve been in the field of stretching flexibility for many years I still get a question when it’s phrased in a specific way it’s confusing to me because I don’t know what people are really asking. The question is “How do…
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Why is it easier to do a turn out in the second position than in the first position?
I got this question quite a lot of times, usually from bullet dancers “How come I can turn out a lot more in the second position, than I can in the first position?” For those of you who are not familiar with what these positions are but are still interested: The second position is where feet are…
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“Why do I have the pain behind the knee?” The pain behind the knee when doing the true front split.
This is one of the most common questions that comes up about the True Front Split, I usually get questions like that pretty often. The answer depends on many factors. First of all where is the pain behind the knee located? There are tendons on both sides. On the inside there is medial hamstrings, semi…