Yoga/stretching post
Mar. 3rd, 2006 08:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonI worked late and was too tired to go to the gym last night, so I stayed in and did just a few strength moves (a pyramid on the pullup bar, some abs) and some stretching. I was fighting HLM for carpet space since he was practicing cello, and I think I must have arrived at a certain point in yoga, because HLM kept looking over and saying "that's insane." I thought about that, and yes, I remember thinking the headstand pike was insane too, the first time I saw someone do it. :) Now it's just a strength move; the next thing, the thing I can't do, is what's insane.
I also discovered something stupid and obvious: splits are progressive, like most other stretches. So, after I've warmed up each split in a kneeling lunge position*, it works just fine to simply alternate splits for a while. They get deeper. DUH! Why haven't I been doing that all along!?
It's been almost a year since I had HLM take a baseline set of flexibility pictures of me (3/6/2005). I am excited about that. Maybe this weekend is the time to take the one-year-later set. I had initially planned to wait two years, but nah, I'm impatient...
*(lunge, with the back knee on the ground, and sit straight up to stretch the psoas and quad. Then move the hips back to straighten the front leg and lean down to stretch the hamstring... repeat...)
I also discovered something stupid and obvious: splits are progressive, like most other stretches. So, after I've warmed up each split in a kneeling lunge position*, it works just fine to simply alternate splits for a while. They get deeper. DUH! Why haven't I been doing that all along!?
It's been almost a year since I had HLM take a baseline set of flexibility pictures of me (3/6/2005). I am excited about that. Maybe this weekend is the time to take the one-year-later set. I had initially planned to wait two years, but nah, I'm impatient...
*(lunge, with the back knee on the ground, and sit straight up to stretch the psoas and quad. Then move the hips back to straighten the front leg and lean down to stretch the hamstring... repeat...)
