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Old 12-05-2006, 02:51 AM   #96 (permalink)
Hsiang-Lin
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SmellyOrc, are you looking for flexibility or hip strengtheners?

If you are looking for flexibility, the simple sit on the floor and reach for your toes works. But as I've realized these past few days in experimenting with the concentration technique, if you want to improve flexibility efficiently you need to focus on the muscles you want to stretch as much as possible.

For example, when I want to touch the floor standing stiff-legged, I make the tiniest adjustments in my footing even when I'm already hunched over at max. distance because I can feel that one leg is being stretched more than another. You want to balance yourself so you can feel that deep stretch in both hamstrings of the legs. I've only been doing this technique recently and I'm much more flexible than before when I just leaned forward as far as I could without concentrating on the muscle.
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