It feels like I'm always in a losing battle with my flexibility.I used to be able to do a pigeon-pose and front-fold. Even pic, I could get my elbows on the floor (but not my chest) with a flat back.Now my legs feel like taught steel cables. I try to pull and stretch them but they won't budge at allESPECIALLY since I started lifting, they've just become so stiff.Any flexy anons here on fit? What routines are you following?I feel like I've tried so many different things to little effect
shes staring into my soul o_o
>>77350369>ESPECIALLY since I started liftingthat's what lifting for "legs" does among other things stop "leg" lifting
>>77350369my current routine: 1x60s butterfly stretch (chest to floor, my legs hinge weirdly)1x60s kneeling hamstring stretch each leg (my knees bend when I do a seated toe touch still)1x60s crossover arm stretch each arm combined with the next two1x60s seated ankle stretch1x60s hero pose1x60s cobra pose + wrists reversed1x60s squat balanced on toes + back of hands1x30 wall angelsI had to look up a lot of these names, since my approach has been to just stretch in a way that feels right or to copy poses I've seen. I used to have some stuff for hip mobility to progress towards a pancake stretch, but it was a weird dynamic movement I didn't like, so I need to figure out something new there
>>77350485annon said it doesn't work: >>77350369>Now my legs feel like taught steel cables. I try to pull and stretch them but they won't budge at alland inadvertently identified the cause: >>77350369>ESPECIALLY since I started lifting, they've just become so stiffstiff i.e. injured, artificially shortened, muscle defends itself from further abuse by limiting its range, that's stiff, that's identifiable injurywalk for "legs" in pace in upright posture>that's it? i do a little walking twirl from time to time>like literal walking 360 ?yeah>>77350428walking is healing squat/deadlift/lunge induced pathology
>>77350369the only thing that gives me results are PAILs/RAILs
>>77350369I have no one to show off my flexibility to.
>>77351389>PAILs/RAILscan you elaborate?
