Stretching Your Boundaries: Flexibility Training for Extreme Calisthenic Strength

Stretching to increase your range of motion is simple in theory, but it is not easy in practice. It requires concentration, patience and strength. Additionally, not every stretch is appropriate for every individual.

The Noose pose takes the Deep Squat With Internal Shoulder Rotation a bit farther while adding a degree of trunk rotation to the picture. From the previous position, release your hand from behind your hip, instead reaching it around your shin and knee.

From the very first slap laid upon the baby’s backside by the doctor, the soft, supple, spiritual conduit we call “body” begins taking the form of the demands pressed upon it by its Earthly existence. From this point onward, the once unobstructed respiratory wave begins to exhibit defensive, utilitarian and even neurotic restrictions created by and

the word “academic” means both “pertaining to a college, school or other educational institution” as well as “not practical.” You learn by doing things, not just by studying or analyzing data.

so too does the practitioner who brings physical alignment back into the human form allow his client to once again produce beautiful music though his life.

Keeping a humble, joyous attitude about your training is the healthiest way to achieve long-term growth. Aggressive goal-setting can actually do more to hurt your practice than help it. Pursuing a goal too hard may cause you to make short-sighted decisions in the moment. This can lead to injuries or other setbacks.

The more popular any given activity becomes, the more likely there will be detractors looking for ways to cut it down. Reactionary behavior is nothing new. The problem stems from a larger issue in our culture - society’s need to force everything into dichotomies of right and wrong, good and bad, healthy and deadly. Things are not always so. In real

Aggressive goal-setting can actually do more to hurt your practice than help it. Pursuing a goal too hard may cause you to make short-sighted decisions in the moment. This can lead to injuries or other setbacks.

If you want to acquire new skills, you have to work specifically toward those skills. You can’t improve your flexibility without dedicated practice.