Posts Tagged ‘stretching’
See a video showing an easy, mechanically sound way of achieving the side split. It is at https://www.stadion.com/an-easy-way-to-a-side-split/
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Tags: Box Split, Chinese Split, exercise, Flexibility, hip joint, martial arts, side splits, sports, sports training, straddle splits, stretching, Thomas Kurz
Does your flexibility improve when you stop training? If yes, then you have the same problem as the martial artist who wrote this: > As a martial artist I stretch a lot but nothing happens. In fact when > I don’t train I become a little bit more flexible than when I train. > It […]
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Sprints and Splits
Question: I am a sprinter, and I know that stretching can be detrimental to running speed, but I would still like to learn to do splits. Is there a way of learning splits that would not be detrimental to my sprinting, or even improve it? Answer: If, to increase flexibility, one does only the type […]
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Tags: elastic energy, explosive power, Flexibility, running speed, splits, sports training, sprinting, stiffness of muscle-tendon unit, stretching, Thomas Kurz, weightlifters
It has been a long while since I produced any instructional material on training for sports and martial arts. The reason is a severe shoulder injury I had a few years ago. I totally dislocated and nearly destroyed my shoulder. (Full info on the injury is at http://atomic-temporary-4752433.wpcomstaging.com/2010/06/30/back-bridge-twist-seminar-excerpt and http://atomic-temporary-4752433.wpcomstaging.com/2009/10/22/no-sweat-workout/#comment-133.) Of course, I was not […]
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Tags: back bridge, exercises, Flexibility, Flexibility Express, martial arts, shoulder injury, shoulder rehab, shoulder surgery, splits, sports, strength, stretching, Thomas Kurz, Tom Kurz
There were some rainy days in Northeast Kingdom so I spent them reviewing and commenting video recording of my last seminar on combining strength and flexibility training. At the seminar I had the participants go through exercises that simultaneously stretch and strengthen the involved muscles, and even help with posture correction. One of these exercises […]
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Tags: back bridge, exercises, Flexibility, injury, rehabilitation, shoulder dislocation, strength, stretching
In its July 2009 issue, the Black Belt magazine published my article on stretching. The article got a sloppy edit. If you have read it (say, in the course of researching the m.a. market), you probably wondered why would I have written such a disorganized piece. I would not. Here is the real deal: In […]
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Tags: Flexibility, splits, strength, stretching, Thomas Kurz, warm-up
At first, I thought of naming this post “On Mixing Apples and Oranges or Empty Your Cup” but then, who would find it? Now, to the point . . . A former gymnast writes: > Hi Thomas, > > I’ve recently begun using your program to increase my flexibility. I > used to be a […]
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Tags: Empty Your Cup, Flexibility, Gymnastics, stretching, Thomas Kurz, Tom Kurz
Click on the following links to see photos of New England Patriots players as they prepare for practice: http://content/usatoday.com/…/Athletes/NFL/Larry+Izzo/… New England Patriots linebackers, from left, Tedy Bruschi, Mike Vrabel and Larry Izzo stretch during football practice in Foxborough, Mass., Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008 http://content.usatoday.com/…/Athletes/NFL/Ty+Warren/… New England Patriots Richard Seymour and Ty Warren talk while stretching […]
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Tags: coach Bill Belichick, football, Larry Izzo, Mike Vrabel, New England Patriots, NFL, practice, Richard Seymour, stretch, stretching, Tedy Bruschi, Ty Warren
Soccer and Yoga?
Soccer match on a cold October day. A cold northerly wind blows. The coach (school’s P.E. teacher) conducts the pregame warm-up. It begins with players (6th and 7th grade, from 12 to 13 years old) doing static stretches—first pulling arms across chest, then other arm stretches, followed by trunk stretches and leg stretches. The leg […]
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Tags: match, soccer, sports training, stretches, stretching, warm-up, yoga
