What are your thoughts on forcing someone to split to increa

>>42635528
they did that to me when I did taekwondo, the best way to live through it is just to breathe deep and focus only on your breating

>>42635528
Nothing wrong with it if the person wants the increased mobility and flexibility, but has too much trouble achieving it on their own. Pain and discomfort is the price that has to be paid for any kind of gains.

>>42635528
I think it's a great way to fuck your shit up.

Its incredibly useless and is only thought to be effective by word of mouth and tradition. Its not how you stretch effectively at all. In males especially, it is possible to get seriously injured just from the attempt. In a particular martial arts dojo in New York I visited they practiced this stupidity in addition to sitting on the heater thinking that constituted a proper warm up

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>>42635882
>sitting on the heater thinking that constituted a proper warm up

>>42635882
I meannn, isn't the idea of a warm up to WARM UP your joints? So that the synovial fluid moves around smoothly?

>>42635805
this.

its motherfucking painful but you'll live. and it feels good having flexibility.

>>42637158
Heat increases the rate of chemical reactions and solubility so sitting on a heater might help a little bit but it takes 10 degrees to increase the rate of the reaction by 2 so not a whole lot.

>>42635805
Did this in taekwondo as well but we were not really "forced beyond our limits". Instructor would go around watch us to splits, and stick his foot under your leg and pull you apart a bit more. Did this every warmup until you were almost on the ground, at which point he just forced you to try lying on your stomach