Been making a lot of progress but my ligaments are still messed up from being skinny + sedentary during school and smoking cigs a lot. I can’t slav squat.
I’m kind of just doing bad incomplete squats and at home, and subbing lower body machines for standing lifts I can’t really complete due to my heels being CIA.
How do I like heelmaxxxx specifically. How do I beat the CIA
Heels on the ground, comrade found.
Heels in the sky, western spy!
You’re stretching ineffectively because you’re not using the correct techniques to move past what is called the “stretch reflex”, which is actually a fake stiffness that occurs before the real stretching. The above video explains the techniques to get past this and get a better stretch very well.
Don’t overdo this though, the stretch reflex exists to prevent injury and while using these techniques to get a better stretch is important to really seeing improvements it is also quite possible to injure yourself. Do not go further than your body can take.
cross your legs when you sit and try to bring your crossed leg and the thigh of your non-crossed leg into the same plane
won’t help with the cia but it’s decent stretch
✍️ Lol doctors once left my mom’s finger to heal wrong after my idiot neighbor slammed the door on her. Needed to be rebroken.
I fell down some stairs and broke my thumb once. The doctor said “It’ll be fine here’s a splint” It didn’t heal fine even with the splint. It’s noticeably like 45 degrees bent and they won’t do anything about it. Now I have to hold a pencil differently and when I play bideo games I have to press the A B X Y buttons with my IP joint (the 2nd knuckle)
I’ve been working on this a lot lately with some very slow success and found my main limiter at the moment is ankle mobility, hamstring tension second, hip flexors third. It takes an annoyingly long time to get results particularly when the rest of my life is pretty sedentary I’ll limber up my hamstrings and then feel like I’ve undone any good by sitting in an office chair for hours, but bit by bit my range of motion has changed over the past 3-4 months.
https://exrx.net/Kinesiology/Inflexibilities#Dorsiflexion I always recommend exrx, it’s kinda old these days but it covers so much without any fads or memes. Movementbydavid on instagram is good for stretch and exercise ideas, too.
