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Flexibility Experiment, Part 3: Method and Benchmarks

by Shane on September 4, 2009

(Total reading time: <3 minutes) After illustrating my issues with common stretching exercises (they don’t work) in the first part of this series and introducing the new method I will experiment with (Resistance Stretching) in the second part, it is now time to lay out how I will test the new stretching method and how [...]

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Flexibility Experiment, Part 1: The Problem with Stretching Exercises

by Shane on September 1, 2009

I have practiced different styles of martial arts for most of my life and I’ve been a martial arts instructor since 2000. Part of the training regimen of every style I’ve ever practiced was stretching. In all these years of training, I have never become as flexible as I would like to be, so I decided to do a stretching experiment on myself and see if I can learn something new.

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