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The outside of my hip hurts when I do a supine hip flexor stretch. It like a very sharp pain (feels similar to nerve pain, but I know it’s different for sure, no tingling or radiating).

It doesn’t feel like any outside muscle like my glute or my it band. I’m out of ideas.

To be more clear, if I bring my left knee up without my right left being supine, no pain at all. If I bring my left knee up with my right leg being supine, I get sharp pain in my left hip.

Buttock stretch pinches my hip in a way that makes me limp for several hours

The hip flexor stretch gives me trouble with both the knee and somehow lower back, despite adhering to the cues about rotating the pelvis and keeping it centered forward

Please give me a passive stretch / routine to prepare better for these stretches? It's okay if it requires a buddy

Hi everyone, I'm English 34, I didn't walk for 2 years and had spine issues from tumors.

I had an amazing online yoga teacher reach out to me and been doing yoga for 3 months n honestly changed my life, I'm walking n doing good. She's going on holiday for 2 months and need someone who can do yoga once a week online as I still need guidance and prefer one on one.

If your nice, friendly and calm please send me a message. Need to start in 2 weeks. Also pay for each session too

Hello, I am a new MMA trainee and have been training for around a month but noticed I am not able to get my legs up enough for high kicks and was wondering if someone could appoint me some stretches, tips or a video to help me with this, Thank you.

Hi, I’m 26 M extremely NOT flexible, never have really been able to touch my toes but I have gotten there once or twice very briefly but wouldn’t count it. I know stretching takes time, but I keep feeling like these small burns and almost like micro tears in my calf around my legs. I have very tight hamstrings and try to focus on lower back and hips and I absolutely hate forward folds but they feel good when I’m done them. I started feeling this sensation (tears) while I was in the stretch and since I can’t touch my toes I would start massaging all around the tissue and that’s where I felt it. It doesn’t really hurt it almost feels like scar tissue or the fascia is getting loosened. Anyways is this normal lol?

I have my splits down but was doing regular stretching after ballet class and it’s been 3 weeks or so I feel a strange pull in a muscle right next to my knee cap (I know nothing about anatomy I’m sorry), I haven’t overstretched at all lately and never stretch unless fully warmed up, so I have no idea what the issue is. I thought it would go away but it’s been persistent and has put a stop to any attempt to stretch, what could this be? Unsure if serious enough to go to doctor yet so seeing if anyone could have any insight

Hurts to supinate my wrist and I think the muslce in the circle is the issue, can someone identify the muscle and suggest some stretches please?

I stretch before my lifts to improve mobility, specifically squat mobility I stretch ankles hips hamstrings etc. is this bad? How do I get mobile without the static stretches?

I've accidentally noticed that whenever I bend one of my legs like shown in the photo, a lump appears. The more weight I put on my foot, the bigger the lump. It disappears when I relax my leg to a more neutral position.
I have these on both of my legs, but this lump is much more pronounced on my left leg.
Does anyone else have anything similar?

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Hello! I'm currently taking martial arts classes (3 months now), but my mobility is pretty bad. My legs don't stretch or go up as they "should", for example

With that in mind, i wanted to try doing exercises at home to make me more flexible. For now i want to focus only on the legs, but forward will see more exercises for other body parts

I wanted to establish a routine for me, but don't know how to start. I tried following Anna McNulty's leg stretches videos and other resources on YouTube, but i admit i get a little insecure doing It

If you guys can help, i would apreciate that :))

Hi all I have been extremely tight my whole life and now want to make a change so just wondering what are the best stretches for these areas as I believe these are the worse

I’m wondering why I can twerk with a big range of motion while on all fours but I can’t twerk or arch at all in a low squat. I know there must be a flexibility problem somewhere, but I’m not sure where. This is a serious question, I know twerking isn’t for everyone but I love dancing.

Is groin tightness normal when stretching? My groin feels very hard to the touch whenever I stretch specifically straddle stretches. The tightness is all the way from my pelvic area to behind the knees hamstrings.

Could it be from core muscle weakness? Bad posture while sitting/sleeping?

 Does anyone know about the alignment band by halfmoon / b halfmoon? 

Hi, after a bad herniated disk, I will start a serious stretching, flexibility routine. I was wondering about this program

https://stretchtherapy.net/about-stretch-therapy/

Any experiences about it or any sound alternatives?

At the moment, I'm nearly half-left paralyzed because of neck pain, but will recover in a few weeks.

I want to exercise almost every day.

Thanks for your support.

I can do a pistol squat on my right side easily, but I have never been able to do it on my left side. My knee just can't go further and makes me fall backward. Additionally, whenever I try to dorsiflex my left ankle, I always feel a pinching sensation.

I've seen some exercises like banded ankle mobilization, but is it really effective? Please tell me how to solve this. Thanks.

As the title says, I'm having trouble with the 90/90 position when sitting with my right leg forwards. Left leg isn't too bad and I'm able to sit upright and even hinge at the hip reasonably well to lean into it, however on my right side I can't sit upright without supporting my weight with my hand and I just fall to the right as soon as I lift my hand off the floor. Is this poor external rotation in right the hip that's causing the problem and if so any tips on how to improve?

Hi, a while ago I was training to be a contortionist. I can still do side splits and a back bend starting on my knees and going back to my ankles. Does anyone have advice for a relatively short daily routine or for practicing balance

I didn't find any topic along these lines, so I decided to create it. If there is, I apologize to the admin.

When I decided to train flexibility, many channels on the subject here in Brazil said that studies showed that static stretching is better than dynamic stretching, but this is not absolutely true!

Static Stretches: make you gain breadth

Dynamic stretches: make you gain strength and establish a range that you have already gained

It makes sense for an advanced person to focus on static stretching, but not for a beginner. Dynamic stretching also helps with nervous tension, I don't know how much, basically Nerve Gliding/Flossing exercises are dynamic stretching.

Dynamic stretches are boring and you feel like they don't help at all, I think many people don't improve because of this.

Videos on YouTube here in Brazil nobody talks about Nerve Gliding/Flossing, but studies show that static stretching is better. Lucky for me, I decided to search for "stretching and flexibility in English!"

I'd like to do daily yin yoga (40 minutes of passive stretches each held for ~4 minutes).

How do I avoid becoming too flexible in ranges of motion where I don't have the strength to function properly?

Is just doing some basic calisthenics (squats, pushups, pull-up s) every other day and some cycling enough or do I need to do something else?

Any guides to recommend? Thanks.

Hi everyone, flexibility noob here, i have a question that i need help with. If i am trying to touch my hand between my scapulae, i am able to do so if my left hand is coming from above, if my right hand is coming from the top i cannot seem to do it. Does anyone know a program or videos to follow to work on shoulder mobility. Thank you in advance.