Stretching Your Boundaries: Flexibility Training for Extreme Calisthenic Strength

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.

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.

Though human potential exceeds most people’s expectations, stretching your boundaries takes time and patience.

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.

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

The Deep Squat with Internal Shoulder Rotation is a great combination stretch for your upper and lower body. Begin in a Deep Squat Hold and reach your left hand behind you,

The Cross-legged Pistol Squat is a great variation on the classic version. Though it requires slightly less strength than a standard Pistol, the hip mobility can pose its

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

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.