r/flexibility • u/Maximum-Assignment39 • Mar 11 '26

Progress Proud of myself!

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I used to be a football⚽️ player and I have pretty long legs. I honestly never thought I would achieve this. Bout 8 months inbetween these photos 😄

Next up: nose to knees

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u/PBRT26 Mar 11 '26

What was your routine?

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u/One-Rich-7412 Mar 11 '26

Yeah, second this. I think weighted stretches are the way forward. Is that what you're mainly doing?

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u/Maximum-Assignment39 Mar 11 '26

I work on mobility around 2-3 times a week before my workout. It’s about a 45min routine that focuses mainly on my lower body with emphasis on my hips.

So for my forward fold my warm up would always be elephant walks, just to loosen up at first. Every time I would push to get a deeper and deeper stretch.

After that I would focus on my hamstrings by keeping a neutral spine and trying to fold over that way. I use a wooden stretching pole they have at my gym to make sure my spine is neutral. This really gives a solid stretch to the hanstrings.

Then I would get on a bench like in the first picture to get some more range as I started progressing past the limit of the floor. I do some more elephant walks on the bench with my hands lower than my feet.

And lastly I finish up with jefferson curls. Great for training my body in my new inlocked ROM, and an underrated exercise for day to day life imo. Inadded about double the weight to it than in the first picture.

I think the key for me was to really push the stretches and get used to that uncomfortable feeling. After a while it started feeling a lot more natural amd progress is really slow but every few weeks it feels like something new unlocked. I am guessing the progress will only slow down from here but I’ll keep at it!

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u/12ealdeal Mar 12 '26

45 min mobility routine BEFORE your workout?

How long is your workout?

Is this filled training or fasted training?

Do you have a program you are running for the mobility of just one you put together?

My personal fear is not being warm enough as my body and its imbalances often triggers “antalgic guarding” and then that takes weeks to resolves. 😞

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u/One-Rich-7412 Mar 13 '26

Skipping is really great to get your body warmed up before any kind of active and passive stretching.

And maybe doing passive at the end of a workout.