Hey Mwodies,
Today’s episode is about dealing with how well your high tension wires (nerves) are running through your meat tunnels (your body). It may appear complicated, but good positioning like keeping the head in neutral while squatting or keeping the shoulder up high when going overhead, actually address protecting your nervous system. Big takeaway: be well hydrated and respect your nervous system. Floss on!
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Part 2
Kstar
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No flip flops? Dude, you dropped a bomb like that on us at the end and then just walked away?
Oh, K-Star, come on, buddy! Don’t take away my flip flops!
ONE OF THE REASONS NOT TO WEAR FLIP FLOPS? Why would there be any reason not to wear them? WTF K-Star! Sacrilege!
And I agree with everyone else… one hell of a cliffhanger.
Hi Kelly. I wonder where to purchase that knobbly type roller, please.
Thanks
http://www.rumbleroller.com/
I with Adam, no flip flops! What a cliffhanger,,,,,,seriously uncool.
yeah whats the deal with the flip flops?
Hey, recently stumbled here from the main site, Kstar you’re awesome! What an amazing resource for tackling and improving flexibility!
Question, I did the 10 minute squat test the other day and am now experiencing some pain/discomfort on the interior part of my knee. (It feels like a bone) Whenever I extend from about a 45% angle to full I can feel it tighten and sometimes pops, and it’s a distinct burn. The more weight on it the sharper the pain. Wondering if I did something wrong – I’m pretty inflexible, had to turn out feet to get past 90.
Flip Flops!!! Slippahs in Hawaii… Bad News!!! I personally had unbearable plantar fasciitis so I speak from experience and now success. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that Hawaii has the highest rate of Plantar Fasciitis in the US. Locals think its because we take our shoes off when we enter a house & walk around barefoot on tile & wood. I would argue from myself and all my clients that it’s from those “wonderful” Flip Flops! Everyone wears them so loose… easy on and off, right? Think about how many reps/steps of shortening that underside of the foot you would take day in & day out. You are not consciously aware of it but your feet are grabbing & curling to keep them on! Guaranteed to be hosing things up royally! I gave up the ‘flip flops” for Vibrams & Inov8 and good to go! I’ve taken all my Hawaii clients & customers off the slippers or at least beg them to go one size too small so they are TIGHT! Can’t wait to hear what our Mobility Master has to say…
I hear you on this one, bra… I’m aware of the tension that flip flops can cause, since I feel it, too. I’m barefoot most of the day, so it’s not a big deal, but if I walk too long/far in my flippy floppies, I can feel the tightness down there that’s not normal.
Can’t wait to hear if K-Star has anything else to add on this, too – and remedies/suggestions. (I wore a hole in the sole of my Vibrams; I’ll wait to hear what he says before replacing them, since I love them, too, but wouldn’t want to anger the Mobility Gods.)
First, you are awesome! You have saved me thousands of dollars in chiropractor fees. (I have probably used that word less times than I have fingers. Second, I have the same problem as Matt VM as well as the guy that wrote about you in Competitor where I found about you (including some inner groin to inner knee pain). Black guys from the Westside of Chicago don’t use that word much.) Third, help! What should I do. I do realize that I have a major overhaul on my legs.
I stopped putting my feet at 45degree angle when I squat, the are straight. I have started extending my thoracic into better posture and I walk with my head up. FYI, it does not happen when I run.
I am going to try some of the recent leg and back stretches However, the pop, pull and grind of walking still happens.
oops, I cut and pasted wrong. Should read: (I have probably used that word less times than I have fingers. Black guys from the Westside of Chicago do not use that word much.)
Anyone else disturbed by K*’s consistent referencing of “meat tunnels”? Please! Niger does not approve.
Hey KSizzle,
Im not broken hearted like the others about the flip flops but my question is more located towards the piriformis: basically mine is uber tight and inflamed (im doing 95% Paleo or more so no problems there) but a while back I did a lot of loaded leg work and have been having problems with the Piriformis ever since (bad!!). Any leg work is causing it to knot up and swell and glue. I LAX, roll, ice and I cant unglue it. I know you arent so with static stretching but I have been trying to contract and relax with the firgure 4 stretch but can not find a way to unglue it. Obviously I am going to give this ‘roll off the box’ a shot but anything up those slick boardshorts that you can throw my way to help a brother out??
Thank you kind sir!
I blew my L4 L5 disc in the bottom of a deep ugly back squat. I didn’t have a strategy for stabilization back then. I felt the nerve in my glute, hamstring, and calf (on the outside of the leg) when it happened. I went through a year of pain and physio but it wouldn’t heal. The physios used to cringe when they saw the MRI pictures.
Eventually I got a microdiscectomy because the pain was unbearable. I still have some nervey stuff in the glute and in the calf but if I dorsiflex the foot and touch chin to chest it’s not too bad. That’s how I test for reherniation.
I’m very close to cracking the code to staying pain free all day. I like the following mobility WOD:
3 min. each of:
PNF hamstrings standing with femur at 90 deg. Lower leg straightens to meet femur as hamstrings loosen up. Both legs.
Hip capsule grindage standing with one foot up on the arm of the couch. 3 minutes working the brilliant corners. Hip flexors will feel short and tight.
Then immediately go into the couch stretch with that same leg for 3 minutes before mobilizing the other leg. Follow up the MWOD with a walk around the block.
I also do a short stability WOD at lunch: 1 min. plank, 1 min. right side plank, 1 min. left side (injured side) plank. No rest in between. This helps me remember my stabilization strategy.
OK, no flip flops. Then what to wear? I tried VFF, but it so stiff. Any suggestion?
I’m sure more enlightening info will come on the MWOD site regarding the flop issue. This time-coincidental commentary (April 6 article) is interesting:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-whyte-md-mph/flip-flops-hurt-feet-_b_844981.html