Tarzan
Level 6 Valued Member
I have to admit, I never stretch. I just don't get it really. I've had times where I have tried 3 or 4 times a week for about 2 months or more but I never saw any real benefits from it. I only ever gained a minimal increase in my ROM and always suffered a lot of pain from it.
It causes me massive pain in the opposite muscles to the ones I'm trying to stretch and makes them spasm and cramp up, sometimes for days afterwards. Then because of several tears in my labrum it just hurts for days afterwards and I always give up. My first labral tear was caused by doing a simple martial arts warmup stretch. It was a simple seated stretch where I sat with the soles of my feet together and pushed my thighs towards the floor with my elbows.
I have a Scottish/northern English heritage and Xrays on the labral tears show the typical deep hip sockets that Dr Stuart Mcgill talks about in some of his talks. A self hip scour test shows greatly limited angularity on external rotation/abduction.
It's almost paradoxical in one sense as I'm hypermobile in almost every other joint in my body.
Are there some people who are just not built for hip mobility ?
It causes me massive pain in the opposite muscles to the ones I'm trying to stretch and makes them spasm and cramp up, sometimes for days afterwards. Then because of several tears in my labrum it just hurts for days afterwards and I always give up. My first labral tear was caused by doing a simple martial arts warmup stretch. It was a simple seated stretch where I sat with the soles of my feet together and pushed my thighs towards the floor with my elbows.
I have a Scottish/northern English heritage and Xrays on the labral tears show the typical deep hip sockets that Dr Stuart Mcgill talks about in some of his talks. A self hip scour test shows greatly limited angularity on external rotation/abduction.
It's almost paradoxical in one sense as I'm hypermobile in almost every other joint in my body.
Are there some people who are just not built for hip mobility ?