Stretching Your Boundaries: Flexibility Training for Extreme Calisthenic Strength

The more popular any given activity becomes, the more likely there will be detractors looking for ways to cut it down. Reactionary behavior is nothing new. The problem stems from a larger issue in our culture - society’s need to force everything into dichotomies of right and wrong, good and bad, healthy and deadly. Things are not always so. In real

Stretching to increase your range of motion is simple in theory, but it is not easy in practice. It requires concentration, patience and strength. Additionally, not every stretch is appropriate for every individual.

Aggressive goal-setting can actually do more to hurt your practice than help it. Pursuing a goal too hard may cause you to make short-sighted decisions in the moment. This can lead to injuries or other setbacks.

The Deep Squat with Internal Shoulder Rotation is a great combination stretch for your upper and lower body. Begin in a Deep Squat Hold and reach your left hand behind you,

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

If you want to acquire new skills, you have to work specifically toward those skills. You can’t improve your flexibility without dedicated practice.

Let’s be very clear however: your genetics don’t give you an excuse to be inflexible. While the spectrum of mobility is quite large, we all have the potential to achieve a full, healthy range of motion in all of our joints. Though a few folks may naturally be tight, the cause of most peoples’ stiffness is simply years of neglect. Your body adapts t

so too does the practitioner who brings physical alignment back into the human form allow his client to once again produce beautiful music though his life.

From the very first slap laid upon the baby’s backside by the doctor, the soft, supple, spiritual conduit we call “body” begins taking the form of the demands pressed upon it by its Earthly existence. From this point onward, the once unobstructed respiratory wave begins to exhibit defensive, utilitarian and even neurotic restrictions created by and