Category: ZST’s
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The Final Turnout: Improve Your Turnout
You are ready for the next step of moving your foot partially off the blocks. We will talk to those of you who are ready for this in the next newsletter.
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Differences between Pectineus ZST and Tensor fascia latae ZST
Pectineus ZST (Zaichik Stretching Technique) is often confused with the Tensor Fascia Latae ZST. The difference is not very subtle. It’s visible but amongst so many ZST’s in different positions of the body one has to understand why Tensor fascia latae ZST is different from Pectineus ZST.
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If You Have Chronic Shoulder Pain This Article Will Change Your Life
Here is some good news: Most shoulder pains and poor ROM are easy to fix. You just have been doing it wrong.
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Why stretching alone will not help you with thoracic hyperextension
Some people believe it’s because they’re not stretching the right muscles, that is an incorrect assumption. The same muscles that flex the lumbar spine other muscles that flex your lumbar spine are the same muscles that flex your thoracic Spine.
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Developpe Content: Does your leg feel heavy while doing a Developpe?
The EasyFlexibility ZST is performed in two steps which repeat for a few reps: first extend your leg as if you were kicking up with your heel, allowing a very light stretch, and as you come back to the starting position bring your leg closer to your torso. You will notice that this actually comes…
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Which hamstrings stretching techniques should you start with?
The Zaichik Stretching Techniques (ZST’s) called ~Peace~, is responsible for thousands upon thousands flexible hamstrings around the world. ~Peace~ targets both the medial and the lateral hamstrings, and takes advantage of the fact that the hamstrings is a flexor of the knee and extensor of the hip, no rotation takes place when performing this ZST.
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Hamstrings tightness – Zaichik Stretching Technique
If there was an exercise that could improve at least 4 of your dance techniques at once, would you like to learn it?
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“I try the stretch. BUT… I feel it in the WRONG Place”, Please help!
I try the stretch Have you ever had this happen to you? You try a stretch, and you don’t even feel it, where you should feel it. You feel it somewhere else! What’s up with that? It can be a bit discouraging to want to target a specific muscle and not only feel it there,…
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You’re Only as Strong as Your Weakest Link
When we talk about flexibility, the first thing that comes to mind is a soft lengthened position such as a side split, we also think of it as a vulnerable posture,
