Assisted stretching: glutes and hip external rotators

The external rotators of the hips can become overly tight and limit hip range-of-motion.
These 2 stretches can help reduce tightness of hip muscles to improve overall hip mobility
Basic
Foot crossover
Advanced
Rotation and contract-relax
Hold the leg with your arm and use your body weight to create the leverage for the stretch.
Hold stretch 20-30 seconds
Client contract 4-6 seconds
Move to new tissue barrier, repeat as necessary

[@andresmoreno5206]

PNF stretching is amazing. Contract then relax the muscles allows for the golgi tendon to activate which are responsible to responding when feeling pain stimuli.

[@AllAboutFitnessPodcast]

autogenic inhibition = tension in the golgi tendon will cause the spindles to relax, allowing the muscle to lengthen. it's the 'secret sauce' of pnf/assisted stretching

[@G4mer_D4d]

I got sciatica and years later my brain won't let me use body weight. 😢

[@AllAboutFitnessPodcast]

ugh, sorry, had sciatica years ago and it is extremely uncomfortable