Only three months back i began taking Kungfu classes. Kungfu sparked an interest in me i never had, thought of, nor cared. The interest it sparked was to work on becoming more flexible. Mind you, when i first began taking classes i was embarrassed, i was having trouble raising my leg 2 inches of the ground when side kicking. When stretching down with my feet together i had trouble reaching my knees. I was the stiffest person in class and possibly in the world. Heck, even the people that started the same day i started were far more flexible than i. I began to stretch hard on my own. It's been 3 months now and i'm still having trouble reaching my toes. I can reach my toes when i'm warm with some effort and surprisingly i am able to hold it. However, this is not convincing to me. I want to be able to touch my toes without putting any effort and i feel i should have been there by now.
I am pleased however on how far i am able to go on my straddle split considering i am not that far from the floor. Though what i've accomplished with the straddle split is nothing short of amazing in my opinion, i am still displeased with the fact that i have no hip mobility while i'm on the split. It would be very displeasing to me to be able to fall on the split but not to be able to throw my body forward because my immobile hips and stiff back wont allow me to. I stretch my back backwards (Cobra) and forward everyday and i still feel it's pretty stiff.
What really frustrates me about my hard work in becoming more flexible is the fact that every part of the body that i stretch is always pretty sore, and soreness dates to 3 months back with no recovery, but i put the pain behind me and for the past three months i've been ignoring it and working through pain. I've conditioned my mind to think and believe that the reason why i'm always sore from stretching could be because i am putting my body through something that is totally foreign to it. However, i cannot explain why has 3 months past and i still feel sore every single day from stretching. Is stretching and becoming flexible really this hard? In my youth i was a weight lifter and a heavy one, i remember being very successful at everything i wanted to accomplish and i can assure you of one thing, IT WAS NOT as PAINFUL as acquiring flexibility.
Women are amazing, we have some new girls in class that are out of shape and they still stretch further than i lol. I guess Women are just naturally elastic.
I am pleased however on how far i am able to go on my straddle split considering i am not that far from the floor. Though what i've accomplished with the straddle split is nothing short of amazing in my opinion, i am still displeased with the fact that i have no hip mobility while i'm on the split. It would be very displeasing to me to be able to fall on the split but not to be able to throw my body forward because my immobile hips and stiff back wont allow me to. I stretch my back backwards (Cobra) and forward everyday and i still feel it's pretty stiff.
What really frustrates me about my hard work in becoming more flexible is the fact that every part of the body that i stretch is always pretty sore, and soreness dates to 3 months back with no recovery, but i put the pain behind me and for the past three months i've been ignoring it and working through pain. I've conditioned my mind to think and believe that the reason why i'm always sore from stretching could be because i am putting my body through something that is totally foreign to it. However, i cannot explain why has 3 months past and i still feel sore every single day from stretching. Is stretching and becoming flexible really this hard? In my youth i was a weight lifter and a heavy one, i remember being very successful at everything i wanted to accomplish and i can assure you of one thing, IT WAS NOT as PAINFUL as acquiring flexibility.
Women are amazing, we have some new girls in class that are out of shape and they still stretch further than i lol. I guess Women are just naturally elastic.