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Holy shit I didn’t realize how tight my body had become since I started powerlifting style pragmming about a year and a half ago. I’ve been following this stretching routine called smooth panther that Nsima Inyang posts on YouTube and I can barley even do some of the basic stuff I used to do no problem. I’m hoping that if I follow through I can gain some movement back and it will help with my training and also just make me feel better. Stretching can be easily neglected but I feel like it goes hand in hand with resistance training.
 

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I am guilty of this as well. With 30 years of powerlifting under my belt, i can barely do routine tasks. I need to turn this around a bit. Good luck
 

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The best I ever felt during my PL career was when I decided to do yoga once a week.

Find a local hot instructor and go once a week. Just hide out in the back corner so you don't look like a perv.

Your body will thank you
 

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Holy shit I didn’t realize how tight my body had become since I started powerlifting style pragmming about a year and a half ago. I’ve been following this stretching routine called smooth panther that Nsima Inyang posts on YouTube and I can barley even do some of the basic stuff I used to do no problem. I’m hoping that if I follow through I can gain some movement back and it will help with my training and also just make me feel better. Stretching can be easily neglected but I feel like it goes hand in hand with resistance training.

More than one person with far more success and experience than I have weightlifting have told me repeatedly that stretching, especially the muscle groups being used, before during and after lifting is important.

I'm not saying I do, but I should.
 
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The best I ever felt during my PL career was when I decided to do yoga once a week.

Find a local hot instructor and go once a week. Just hide out in the back corner so you don't look like a perv.

Your body will thank you

i really needs to go back to the hot yoga I used to do. Sauna and mobility session all in one.
 

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i really needs to go back to the hot yoga I used to do. Sauna and mobility session all in one.

Ever since that huge study reported the health benefits of sauna, I do it religiously. 5-6 days a week. My blood pressure dropped by ten points as a direct result.
 

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I am starting to see this as I progress, and the majority of you men are much bigger than I! I have always been good to stretch before working out but I also need to do more during and after. Get your stretch on Gents!!!!!!
 
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Ever since that huge study reported the health benefits of sauna, I do it religiously. 5-6 days a week. My blood pressure dropped by ten points as a direct result.

thats awesome to actually see the proof with yourself. I’ve heard studies will say it can reduce all cause mortality by a pretty big amount
 

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thats awesome to actually see the proof with yourself. I’ve heard studies will say it can reduce all cause mortality by a pretty big amount


Yeah. Heart disease and cancer especially. Might as well sweat every day
 

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Seventeen bars of soap in the bottom of the shower, cause, well, when you drop it you just stare at it for a couple minutes deciding if you really need it or not till you settle on the shampoo.... yeah no idea what you're talking about.

Move like a 20 year old in the gym, 95 years old the rest of the day... remind me again why I do this...
 

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