Back Lift Dynamic Stretch

[Matsuo]

Alright, so I've been doing those back lift dynamic stretched and I've noticed I felt the stretch in the wrong spot (In the back of the not moving leg in the thigh). I was curious as to what I was doing wrong, re-read the stretch, fixed what I was doing wrong though I still feel the stretch in the same spot and I read that it shuold be in the front of the thigh (and I also assume it's supposed to be in the leg that is moving). Are there any common mistakes that I may be making? (By the way.. my First post on TT ^^)

[frozenpeon]

You are getting a stretch in your hamstring, right?

It is normal, the backlift stretch is just like a frontsplit; it stretch the hamstring and the quad.

[short gorilla]

You'll feel it in the back of your base leg more if you are leaning forward a lot. That's not a bad thing, it's just the position you're using. If you can try to stand upright a bit more you'll probably feel it more in your hips and groin, although getting height will be harder the more upright you are (until you have been doing it for a while and have a big range of motion).

[Matsuo]

Thanks for the explaination ^^;; I'll try it later when I'm at my other house with more room heh.

However, sorry for the bad explaination also :P not used to any terminology yet, still kind of new ahha.

[Papa Lazarou]

Yeah it doesn't matter too much if you feel it in your hamstring. Maybe bend that leg a bit, stand on your toes, or try tilting your hips differently. Failing that, your hamstrings will get flexible enough for it soon anyway.

[short gorilla]

Yeah it doesn't matter too much if you feel it in your hamstring. Maybe bend that leg a bit, stand on your toes, or try tilting your hips differently. Failing that, your hamstrings will get flexible enough for it soon anyway.

I don't know about standing on your toes. That's a bad habit to develop for a lot of kicks.

[Papa Lazarou]

Yeah I guess. I suppose you could do it like that until you had the hamstring flexibility to do the back lift stretch properly.

[Ghostmb]

I had the same problem, i just bent my knee of the standing leg, and then i only felt the stretch in the quad of my kicking leg.

[Ashtar]

This happens, to minimize it and focus on stretching the hip flexors of the kicking leg, keep your back straight and don't bend forward at the hip. If you focus on it, it's pretty easy. Of course, the height you then get is incredibly small, it makes you feel weak, but it burns like the dickens.

I'd say to make leveredge the hardest, you could bend only enough so that at the height of your kick the leg is parallel to the ground. So as you get better at hip extension kicking, you don't have to bend forward so much.

That's for strength anyway. For RoM, obviously bending forward is going to help, especially once you get past parallel since then leveredge will help you.

[short gorilla]

I like that, Ahtar. I think people tend to get impatient with dynamic stretching.

[Graber]

Hey man is been more than a year of stretching for me. Stretching daily 2 hours. I wonder with other methods if could do better or if i was at a TKD or some gimnastik shit.

[Ashtar]

Are you saying if you did TKD or Gymnastis you'd learn better stretching methods from them compared to what you know now? What do you take now for stretching, or do you read about it?

[Papa Lazarou]

I think he wings it.

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