Stadion's Sports and Martial Arts Training Discussion

Yes that picture demonstrates what you are talking about well. She looks young enough to get away with it though... maybe not in ten years time! It's interesting, if I remain upright and try and raise my front leg ie without leaning back, my flexability is practically non existant - I can only get a...

Yes it looks like the supporting leg is bent slightly but the body is upright. Something is obviously wrong if I am finding it this hard to do. As the DVD says, my back strength needs to be several steps ahead in order to do the stretching. I am going to work on my abs with crunches and reverse crun...

Thanks Kit, glad it is not just me who's had this problem. Generally my back is fine. I hurt it about 15 years ago and had a few phases of pain due to bad posture etc but for the last 5 or 10 years it's been ok except the odd bad week. As I said earlier in this post, I have trained in TKD for two ye...

Thanks. Yes, possibly the front leg was more a ballistic swing than a raise engaging the muscles in the hip/leg etc. I'll watch that. Could be the problem. OK, I will look at the DVD for some back strength exercises. I seem to remember the one where you lie on your front and lift your arms and legs ...

Thanks for the tips... I do the side raises exactly the same as a side kick basically, leaning to the opposite side slightly (iei not upright) with the kicking leg going slightly backwards as it raises, heel down. This really emulates how a real kick would be. It seems reasonably comfortable and see...

That's true - in reality, you would do what you could to escape in a self defence situation, a reverse hook kick to the head may not be the most practical technique!! It could be that my aerobic work out before the leg raises is not enough - after the joint rotations I do some push ups, sit ups and ...

I got the DVD and studied it carefullyand I still get the lower back pain?! I have been calming down the dynamic stretching to just my beforemy classes then just in the mornings, very gentle and light and not anything like the velocity I train at in the eve at my TKD classes. Just 8 reps on each leg...

I have ordered the DVD now to visually check if my technique is bad... hopefully this may help.

I'll take it very gradualy when I start up again and won't push the stretch until I'm used to the movement.

Thanks.

Oh ok, thanks Dragon. Maybe I was trying too hard to stretch with the dynamic leg rises rather than just warm up. It may have been that yes. So the improvement in kicking height for example will be increased by isometrics ( after training in my case couple of times a week). The dynamics are just to ...

I recently purchased Scientific Stretching and have been embarking on the twice a day dynamic stretching as reccomended. I have only been doing this for a week and have suffered from lower back pain twice for a few days and still have it today after excercises two days ago. I have now stopped. I sus...