Flexibility and Stretching Mistakes and What To Do Instead

Nicole is an aerialist as well as a physio. She is interested in flexibility, especially for aerial silks and hoop, dance, ballet and calisthenics which all require more flexibility than the average person.
In this video, Nicole discusses the regular mistakes that she sees when people are trying to increase their flexibility.
She also talks about some of the research that the Australian Ballet has done, including:
- what exercise they left out to allow their dancers to significantly reduce their injury rate
- what you need to work on to improve your flexibilty (and it’s not stretching!).
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[@jonathonelkins1948]

Thanks Nicole. A very interesting topic that I shared with my daughter. She has been practicing for months, using static stretches learnt from videos online to increase her flexibility. She was very interested to learn that there may be a better way to achieve her goals.
Cheers

[@adelaidewestphysio]

Thanks Jon. I feel like this info will be really relevant for the calisthenics girls. There’s more in the pipeline

[@amh6417]

Hey Nicole - what is an example of an active stretch? Thanks

[@adelaidewestphysio]

Hey Amanda, good question! In the next video that we publish there will be an example, but it is a situation where you are using your muscles to create the range of movement, or to control the increase in range of movement.
For example, if you want to increase your hamstring flexibility, it might be lifting your straight leg up and controlling that movement rather then bending forwards and letting gravity act on your body to passively stretch the muscle. I hope that helps! 😀