HOW to stretch for mobility!

Are you stiff and trying to get more mobile? Have you tried those mobility videos but found it to be too difficult, too confusing, or worse, it's hurt in a bad way? Well, instead of just throwing you a bunch of exercises that you should do, I'll explain to you a couple rules and reasons, what you should be looking for and how to increase your mobility. If you haven't subscribed yet, go ahead and hit that subscribe button with the bell so you can be notified when you come out with more videos on how best to balance your body so you can live life on your terms. Greetings. If we haven't met, I'm Akimbisso. I'm a summer therapist and trainer. And I've used this information and techniques associated with it to not only help hundreds of clients get out of pain and back to the life they want to live, but also myself. So first, a little background. Mobility is the ability for you to move about your life and and your activities in a full, uninhibited range of motion. But as we age, or as we're not specific with what we want to keep mobile, we start to lose it. The whole use it or lose it thing comes into play here. Now, you may think by staying active that you're keeping mobility perfect. This is untrue because the activities that you do will actually inhibit your mobility. I'll give you an example. Let's say there's a thousand ways that we can move, and our activities produce 10 of those movements. And so we do those 10 movements over and over again for 10, 15, 20 or more years. Well, now I'm overusing those 10 moves, producing overuse of those, which means usually stiff and tight. And I'm under using the other 990 ways to move. So they become dysfunctional. They don't know what to do anymore, and they become tight and less fluid. So the idea is you want to intentionally try to be more mobile. It's a hard word to say, mobile. So how do you do that? The first step to be more mobile is to be hydrated. If you're dehydrated, the soft tissue in your body won't move. Well, your soft tissue, specifically your fascia, which is the connecting link to all of your body, is really affected by stress and hydration. So being too stressed out, and in this case, not having enough water, means that your soft tissue, which should be nice and supple, like a good cut of meat, is now dehydrated like a piece of beef jerky. On top of that, there's a water substance that most soft tissue in viscera should glide on your muscles and your tissue should glide upon each other as you move. Well, if I don't have water substance there, it's like friction. I now produce inflammation by movement. So I produce inflammation because the lack of water. But I also produce bad micro tearing because my tissue is dehydrated and I'm trying to pull a like in a piece of beef jerky. You won't notice this because it comes out as pain and soreness. And so you think, oh, that's normal because I'm working out. But in that case it's not normal. Right. So you have to make sure that you're drinking at least a quarter or two of water per day, ideally half your body weight in ounces of water. And you want to be having good quality water. Artesian spring. And if you need to ro reverse osmosis. The second step to be more mobile is to find out why you're immobile. What muscles, tendons, ligaments, joint capsules are inhibiting you from doing the mobility routine that you've been doing. Because when you go through that routine, you'll feel tight and immobile. And you think, oh, if I keep doing this, I'll increase my mobility. And you made it to a point. But you're also increasing the dysfunction. By that I mean your body will move with the most available source. It takes the easiest road. So if I'm doing a 99A and my hips are going back and forth and I'm working my pelvic trochanter muscles, but my piriformis is causing me issues, Well, I need to be more specific to my piriformis. And on top of that, what part of my piriformis do I need to be more specific? Proximal at the sacrum or more distal at my thigh at my greater trochanter. So I need to first find out what muscle is it that it's inhibiting me and do I need to strengthen or stretch that muscle? I say strengthen because your muscle can become more calcified or ligamentous and then it's not going to move as well. So I need to first make sure there's a proper amount of muscle so I can move it better. If not, I produce a strain or a tear on that tendinous muscle. I also need to know the actions and reactions of that muscle. I need to know that because I need to know whether I need to go into the actions to strengthen it or to go the counter actions to straight, to stretch it. All those factors combined produce basically mobility. At your weakest link, are you struggling with your mobility? Comment below the yes or no and let me know what you've been doing that's worked and hasn't worked. The last way you can increase your mobility is to be specific to you and to understand the contraindications and the rules that might make certain mobility exercises not the most efficient. I'm going to use an example of the McKenzie press up or in yoga it's called the cobra press. You can find it all over the interweb. Now, I'm going to speak from personal experience because I had L4, L5 compression with sciatic pain and was prescribed this by PTS and by yogis as a fix all. And it made matters worse from officers speaking from the studies I've done for my degrees on why this is not the most effective. So in the McKenzie press up or cobra, you're lying on your stomach and you push yourself up into extension. The idea here is that when you lean back, your front part of your spine opens up and that back, spine, back part of your spine, the facet joints, spinous process, kind of quote unquote, come together. Now in a healthy spine, which is generally fine. But if you're doing this for therapeutic reasons, you don't have a healthy spine, you're trying to correct something that's going on. Well, what if one of those issues is that you have a facet joint syndrome? That's inflammation at the facet joints, the joints right there. Well, if I lean back, I'm putting more pressure in those facet joints and I could be compounding that effect, which means you're going to hurt more and be less mobile. The second part of why this is not the most effective is that what part are you targeting? Right, so if I have a, if I want to increase the mobility at my lumbar spine, my back, and I'm doing a McKenzie press up, well, what part of my lower back needs more mobility? Just like the muscles I gave in the previous example, your body is going to move to the path of least resistance. So if you're pushing yourself up and you have L3, L4 compressed well, your body's going to move more from L4, L5 and L2, L3, it's going to try and move more from those and actually cause more issues in those joints and less mobility in the area that you need. The third part of why this might not be the most effective is that that's one plane of motion you have so many different ways that your spine can move if I just open it in the front part and compress it back while I'm forgetting, or all the other ways it can move. So I would say for me, I would choose some sort of translation because there's no compression in the spine and using some sort of Eldoa to help open up the specific joints so you can move more freely. If you're struggling with mobility, you got pains in your body and your life you want to live is not exactly the way you envisioned it. Well, I want to help. I've got a free diagnostic consultation where we can talk about what you're doing now, where you want to go, and I can see how I can help. Just use the link in the description to schedule a time of your choosing. But if you're not ready to talk, no problem. I also have a free report on how to sustainably train your body so you can live life on your terms. You just click on the link in the description, put information, and we'll send it right out to you. Be sure to check out this next video where I talk about the Aldoa Method. Don't forget to subscribe. And please like and share this video so others can benefit from it. And don't forget, it's not just working out, it's building a foundation for a better life.