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| I have a question. What do you do when you have two events (whatever they are) in a day that requires you to achieve maximum stretch? I don't mean forced stretch, I just mean maximum stretch. I ask because I now have a couple of days where I must perform thusly twice, once around noon and then again in the evening. I have found that if I stretch too aggresively during the day, that my flexibility suffers when I must do it again later in the evening.
For me it is Yoga during the day, then karate in the evening. I have tried to be softer on myself during the day, but then I don't feel like I got the benefits of the practice. Kind of like an under-achieving feeling when I am done.
On days that I only practice karate, I don't have an issue because I am only doing the stretching routing once, though I do take nearly a 1/2 hour to stretch before class because I do it carefully and maximally.
Edited by scotlfs 2007-11-06 11:29 PM
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| maybe try giving yourself a sesame oil massage in between the two events.
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perhaps you might have to accept the limitations of your body.
but thats a lot harder than giving yourself an oil massage...
its strange, because if i practice in the morning, i'm usually more flexible in the evening.
you said it yourself, if you stretch too aggresively, your flexibility suffers.
so perhaps try removing the aggresiveness from the stretch.
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| Perhaps "aggressive" is the wrong word.
What I mean is that I challenge my limits of flexibility.
I don't have the opportunity for a massage between them. One is a lunch time jaunt, the second is practicing martial arts nearly immediately after work. |
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| For my students I would respond in the following way -
Yoga does not require you to maximally stretch.
So the answer is not an anotomical remedy but rather it is a perceptual remedy.
I do not maximally stretch every time I do an asana practice because it is irrelevant whether I am maximally stretching or stretching 80% or stretching 8% or stretching 80% here and 8% there. What is relevant is that I am fully aware of what I am moving and not moving, enlisting and not enlisting, and that I am fully in my own body while doing whatever it is. It matters not if I am supine in Savasana or inverted in Pincha Mayurasana.
When students only perceive the practice as "stretching" (when, in fact, it is self-exploration) then they must find their own answer to the question posed, for the answer I can give is not the answer they want. And as Sai Baba once said "I give them what they want hoping one day they will want what i have to give".
Edited by purnayoga 2007-11-08 6:27 PM
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2x Maximum Stretch
