Stretching and flexibility thread
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2024 10:16 am
This is like, a final frontier for me. Since sometime mid-2023, I started stretching daily, reluctantly. Like most people I loathe the act. But it has revolutionized my whole stupid world as it pertains to golf. I used to get such soreness from whacking balls. In between swings I would sit there trying to either massage or stretch out stiff and aching areas, mainly in the hips. Literally hobbling back and forth from the mat to my seat. I try to not care what anybody thinks of me but I always hated presenting that way in public.
I have now worked myself out of that sad state, having become almost religious about the daily stretch. I spend about 15 minutes every morning, putting a lot of effort particularly in something in yoga called a pigeon pose. Seems quite effective in battling the tightness that likes to settle into the hip/crotch/groinal/ITB/psoas regions, all those weird ass parts that I still know almost nothing about, and which are elemental in the golf swing. What I lack in knowledge, I try to make up for with dumb force. Just push and stretch until something hurts, and then try to hold it there for like twenty seconds or more. And while attempting to hold these stretches and bear the pain, I think about my adversaries.
I am starting to take pride in flexibility, finally understanding that fitness is as much about flexibility as strength. I can now put my palms flat on the ground, and sometimes I will do it at the range just to show off. Not so much to pump up myself, but rather in the hope of making others feel inferior.
I have now worked myself out of that sad state, having become almost religious about the daily stretch. I spend about 15 minutes every morning, putting a lot of effort particularly in something in yoga called a pigeon pose. Seems quite effective in battling the tightness that likes to settle into the hip/crotch/groinal/ITB/psoas regions, all those weird ass parts that I still know almost nothing about, and which are elemental in the golf swing. What I lack in knowledge, I try to make up for with dumb force. Just push and stretch until something hurts, and then try to hold it there for like twenty seconds or more. And while attempting to hold these stretches and bear the pain, I think about my adversaries.
I am starting to take pride in flexibility, finally understanding that fitness is as much about flexibility as strength. I can now put my palms flat on the ground, and sometimes I will do it at the range just to show off. Not so much to pump up myself, but rather in the hope of making others feel inferior.