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My left hip is far tighter in hip external rotation and extension (sit much higher when crossing legs) and this is the knee that experiences the pain. Is this just a matter my being more patient and elevating the knee in pigeon and Piriformis stretching??

Hi everyone! Lately I’ve been experiencing tightness in my traps only on my right side. This initially started with neck pain that was radiating to my shoulders & arm- maybe a cervical herniated disc? I’m getting an MRI tomorrow to see what’s going on. Has anyone else experienced this? What should I do to help this pain? :(

I have pretty minor scoliosis, about an 18 degree curve in my back. It affects my ability to bend forward, though, and I think it also gives my sciatic nerve less slack such that even minor hamstring stretches seem to strain it. Does anyone with minor or more severe scoliosis have advice on this? Similar experiences, success stories, thoughts?

I’m 14. I’m an athlete. I play soccer almost twice everyday with school and club. My flexibility is very bad for some reason. I started stretching 3 days ago and no I’m doing it atleast 10-20 minutes a day. When will I see results? This is very frustrating.

Hi everyone.

I’m struggling with flexibility, and it’s seriously holding me back in my Muay Thai training. I’m not flexible at all—I can’t touch my toes and can barely kick above someone’s legs. Here are my main challenges:

1.	Higher Kicks: Right now, I can only kick as high as someone’s thigh. Kicking to the body or head feels completely out of reach.

2.	Push Kick (Teep): This is a forward kick where you bring your knee to your chest and then push your leg straight out. I can lift my knee decently, but my hamstrings are so tight that I can’t extend my leg fully toward someone’s chest. At best, I can aim for their stomach, and even that’s a struggle.

I’m worried that my lack of flexibility will prevent me from advancing in my training or participating effectively in sparring and tests. Does anyone have advice on stretches or routines to help me improve flexibility for kicking? Any tips for targeting hamstrings, hips, or overall leg mobility would be super helpful. Thanks in advance!

It started manifesting after I began incorporating more leg raises in my exercise plan.

Some context: I'm a beginner and naturally very inflexible. I already have a strength training routine but I want to add a stretching routine for movements in which I lack mobility.

So I read in a bunch of sources that the effective set for a static stretch is 30 seconds, and the effective weekly volume for a stretch is 5 minutes (so basically 10 sets of 30 seconds). Is it still effective if I do all 10 sets in one day? 30 seconds hold > 30 second rest rinse and repeat, for a total of 10 minutes including the rests?

I used to work as a video editor, had an amazing and fulfilling life until chronic eye strains took a lot of my favorite activities away. ( I still have an amazing and fulfilling life, at least I try to, because I also got me a great foot injury which keeps me home most of the time, haha )

After banging my head against the wall of a lot of ophthalmologists cabinets and all of them saying my eyes are great and after a lot of money spent on glasses, visits, eye drops I think my pain could be related to a chronic trapezius muscle tightness.

I've been an active guy until I had an open surgery and had to take a break and live sedentary. When I got back in the gym I noticed I can't do barbell bicep curls without feeling like fainting and getting a noticeable headache after that. In photos people took of me I also noticed an obvious tech neck, and, now, if I try to tilt my head backwards I can really feel those muscles screaming for mercy.

Well, I'm not sure if this will solve my issue with my eyes but it doesn't hurt to try, and it will surely improve my overall wellbeing

So, what do you guys recommend me? I can't go to the gym right now because of my foot injury, I tried to do YouTube Workouts for tech neck in the past, but they didn't help me at all. My roommate helps me with massage and I feel great after that, but it doesn't help me on long term. Advice highly appreciated, guys!

Heya! I'm a motion capture actor and latley I have been getting more jobs that involve flexible monsters. I was advised to prepare through sports however I tried poledancing but the classes will start next year in July. Is there a sport I can do that can help me improve?

• Have you made any milestones in your flexibility recently? Feel free to share stories/pics/videos, anything (you can now upload photos in your comment)
• How about any other fitness accomplishments you've made and want the world to know about because your friends and family just don't get it?

Well, this is the thread where you get to share all that and inspire others at the same time!

I was doing a 90/90 stretch for hip external rotation but I tried doing it elevated and tweaked something at the top of my shin/below the outside bottom part of my knee. Now just regular 90/90 stretches hurt and it’s been over a month now. It’s not a pain that really shows up unless I stretch in a similar manner so I’m just looking for a stretch I can sub in to let it heal up.

I also tried the one where you lay on your back, cross ankle onto knee, and reach through, grab your other leg, and pull it towards you but the leg across is what puts the same sort of pressure on the area I’m having trouble with.

I've always been as stiff as a brick. So I've set out to stretch.

I've always had issues with inconsistency etc. I made a plan to do 5 days this week (Mon-Fri) and I managed to do it!

I feel so much better, I'm 30 and fear being 60 and not being able to move properly. Tbh I really enjoyed stretching since I've been able to find some consistency with it.

This is nothing but a small win and I'm super happy - I hope this post is allowed 😁

Hey guys so I’m very inflexible and my body is always extremely tight. For clarification I’m 6’5 so that also doesn’t really help either but I did small stretches for about 6 months but I saw no improvements whatsoever. In fact, whenever I do some stretches my muscles or tendons or whatever it is always makes this crunching noise that only I can hear. Not sure what that is? I know that it takes a long time but it was bothering me that I didn’t feel any different. Is this my body just telling me to stay tight and stiff all the time?

Hello everyone,

I want to start stretching because my range of mobility is close to non-existent, and it's causing me a lot of injuries.

I do weightlifting, football, hiking. Every few months I get an injury because of my devastating.

I need some guides, especially for calves/hamstrings. Can anyone help?

I got injured 5 years ago when I was putting ice into bags from an ice dispenser. The lid hit my right side of my forehead and pushed my head back. I strained something alongside the levator scapulae though the Dr. wants to claim it as bulging disc which I’m sure it’s not. I’ve had neck stiffness when turning my head to the right looking up muscles always feel tender on that side for 5 years. Is my posture correct? I’m left handed so I feel like my left side is bigger and my right side is working harder to compensate. Which is why I feel like my injury never healed correctly or hasn’t.

I’ve tried everything from PT to chiropractor to dry needling to massages and no dice. I haven’t worked on my posture or maybe I need to do more isolation work outs on the right side to even it out? That’s the last thing I haven’t tried.

I have a lot of issues going on overall just tightness and weakness from head to toe. Neck is in a stretched position. Hamstrings stretched and tight. When I try to touch my toes my hamstrings are already stretched. Hip flexors stretched and tight. This causes me to have ATP. Last night I did planks, hip thrust and glute raises. This morning I woke up everything was stretched more and tighter. My spine area feels tight and pretty much everything overt stretched or tight. My mobility and range of motion suffers a lot from this. Lastly any type of core or glute work I do I feel it on my right side vs left. My pelvis is always moving not stable at all.

Causes little spasms that do NOT hurt in my lower back, pelvis area.

Hi there, was just wondering for stretches like hand clasp and lying cross are you meant to alternate arms. Or do up to 30 seconds for each side. As it feels like you wouldn’t be stretching evenly.

I'm 21F and was wondering if that level of flexibility is possible for anyone regardless of age if they just were dedicated enough to training/stretch enough, could everyone get there with enough time and dedication?

FYI I’m gonna get the everything bundle. Which one should I go for?

Looking to purchase an online flexibility course with a good black friday deal. Strerch Therapy has a nice 60% off.

Any other recommendations?

Thank you!

I have tried to do her stretches before and it helped me get more flexible and helped me touch my toes even (I wasn't flexible at all) however I have been doing her stretches to get the splits for quite some time now and can't get them and I'm not improving much she only really does passive stretches. What do you think?

Hlo everyone! I'm training for front splits from last 4-5 months.now I'm at 4-5" away from ground.i have noticed that when I push myself harder my crocth is ready to go down than 4-5".but, my knees are kinda holding my crotch from touching the ground. I feel strong stretch in back of my knee( kneepit) I guess its not flexible enough.did you face this issue? Are there any exercise which will make my back of knee more flexible?