Kit Laughlin presents a free, one-hour, Beginner-level Stretch Therapy class

[@mohamedorayith4626]

Absolute hero I was thinking about you two days ago and wondering when I will see you again ❤️

[@guidoschneider-lambridis9178]

that, ' s a great tutorial , master Kid. Respekt and thank you for your Work. Greating from Bocholt / Germany Guido

[@KitLaughlin]

Thanks Guido. We are planning a full series of these classes (Beginner's and Intermediate), one series presented by Olivia, and one by me. If you have not already, sign up for our occasional newsletter (click on our site URL, above) and you'll be the first to know when they are ready.

[@Markersify]

Hello thanks for sharing

[@ttattx]

Hi Kit, thanks for sharing these... it should have many more views... I will share far and wide people NEED this type of movement in their lives!

[@KitLaughlin]

Thanks, Kieth; appreciated.

[@MiauxCatterie]

i cannot describe how painful and thus necessary this stretching series was for me today. thank you for this material. i am a visual learner and your style is very easy for me. i find illustrations very hard to use. i look forward to the pain relief this video will give me with repeated use.

[@movepauserestore]

Brilliant, thank you

[@pulgurtasekhar4166]

Sir, your exercises are very illustrative and help us to come out of the difficulty. I am practicing them on a daily basis.

[@KitLaughlin]

Best to do a different sequence on different days; this gives the body a chance to recover and adapt. Thanks for commenting.

[@batdog1359]

Thank you from Russia with love ♥️ il try it

[@jasdeepsingh6568]

Thanks for sharing Kit!

[@davidfreel1451]

We enjoyed this again last night together. It's easy to get specific in a movement practice and work towards specific goals. A general practice helps me to switch on again to the big picture, dissolving issues before I notice them. Thanks !

[@KitLaughlin]

Thanks, David. We have a number of other free 'rolling around on the floor' classes on our Vimeo channel, and here's one more from here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYisd4eDnJ2IaNk Cheers!

[@davidfreel1451]

@@KitLaughlin That one's a favourite already ! I'll get over to vimeo directly.

[@joespencer9779]

You are AMAZING thanks Kit

[@MrJa55on]

I can't hold the instep of the foot extended or with my weight sitting on it it for too long or it gets painful even though the quad and knee feel fine at full flexion. Is this just ankle conditioning or do I need to do some ankle mobility work before hand to?

[@KitLaughlin]

The tight muscle is the front shin one (tibialis anterior). Put a mat between your knees and the top of your ankle, so that the instep does not have to extend quite so straight. Reduce the thickness of the mat over time. This ROM usually improves pretty quickly. Also, there's a whole foot sequence here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaekpaJsrq56grs

[@konstantinr7193]

Hi Kit, A friend of mine has a problem - left leg a by an inch shorter than the right one . A specialist -doctor advised him that the squats would be the best exercises for him . What is the best ?🤔💯

[@KitLaughlin]

As long as your friend puts a ½" plate or plank of wood underneath the heel or foot of the shorter leg (we recommend only half the measured difference, not the full amount), squats are a good exercise. Tell him to build up slowly (I have written extensively on leg-length difference in my book 'Overcome neck & back pain'); the muscles on either side of his spine will be different because of the LLD and they will need time to readjust to the changes pelvis position that using a lift creates. As well, he will benefit from walking/moving barefoot; many reasons.

[@konstantinr7193]

Thank you very much , Kit!

[@konstantinr7193]

Hi Kit, just one more - should he use this hill pad during any gym workouts?

[@KitLaughlin]

@@konstantinr7193 whenever he is doing vertical load-bearing exercises. Not needed for any seated exercises or any hanging ones.

[@konstantinr7193]

@@KitLaughlin Thank a lot , Kit

[@davidfreel1451]

My arms feel like rubber bands. I cant even remember the last time they felt like that. I was probably under five. Thanks so much for this wonderfully encouraging lesson. I'm getting a little numbness in the right thumb and forearm but am not worried at all. If this highlights an obvious technical issue I would be grateful for the explanation. Do enjoy a well earned break though !

[@KitLaughlin]

David, being a video, and shot 'live-to-disk', there was not the opportunity to go into what's happening in depth. But both the pec. major and biceps exercises take brachial plexus (the nerves that innervate the arms and hands) though a full range of movement-and the nerves can be adhered to their sheaths at certain points. If you feel numbness, don't go deeper; but stay in that position and try to relax even more. Also, look up TOCS or TOS; these acronyms discuss a common phenomenon where the anterior and medial scalenes are applying pressure to these same nerves. All can be remediated (look for a good scalene stretch here) but you do want to do this gently and slowly, and over time, to avoid hurting yourself.

[@davidfreel1451]

@@KitLaughlin Thanks Kit, I'll look into this carefully, thanks for the pointers. Thumb is normalised, I'll be more attentive next time, I struggle a little to be guided adequately by pain, It's such a constant for me. It was worth it though just for that brief moment of true release in my arms, really lovely sensation.

[@davidfreel1451]

@@KitLaughlin Please let me add Kit. I am incredibly impressed by your generosity and bravery in sharing these wonderful demonstrations warts and all. We live in a responsibility averse world where, at every turn, we are invited to only share that which cannot have any negative outcomes for which we may be held responsible. All valuable information has power and all power may be mishandled by clumsy men like me. This means that in general youtube promotes five minutes videos of trite nonsense skilfully edited and insight free. 'Subtraction Stew'. Most successful youtubers are, in effect, advertising the technology and software to produce videos.Any actual competence, insight or integrity may well be an impediment to google's plan to suppress genuine information sharing and replace it with an endless stream of advertising wallpaper. This was a terrific hour and I expect it to yield more dividends as I explore it patiently. It also gives me hope that one day if I am patient I too may have a platform where I can share insights into my own discipline, music, which popular beliefs and the power structures which nurture them, make unfashionable.

[@KitLaughlin]

@@davidfreel1451 There is, literally, a place for everyone. I wish you the best in getting your platform going.

[@davidfreel1451]

@@KitLaughlin Even though Maggie and I are having a lovely night and a sneaky drink, you lift us up once more.

[@Jay-qs2mb]

Hi Kit, should I be using the S&f routines in your book directly before or after weight training? I'm 47 and reasonably in shape but I'm finding my muscles tighter for every day non exercise related tasks more & more especially in my glutes, QL, adductors and h flexors despite doing the stretching fairly often. Any ideas?

[@KitLaughlin]

Yes: after weight training, never before, and twice a week, doing half the body each session, and spend more time on each exercise (do the ones you've decided to do twice). Also look up the "Relaxation Wiki" on our site; that's the most important forgotten detail.

[@hugomc7178]

how many days a week should someone do this?

[@KitLaughlin]

Once or twice a week is enough for most people,

[@sh0]

Hi Kit! Is this another "beginner class" like the recent one you posted that was a bit less accessible to those starting out?

[@KitLaughlin]

Did you read the description? :)

[@alex_lit]

Hi Kit and Liv! First of all, thank you so much for sharing, amazing as always! I have a question. I read the description but I'm still struggling to correspond the Beginner course you're mentioning here to the courses that you have on your website. I see only Starter course and then Mastery. But as far as I understood Starter course represents a collection of "easy" solo exercises ie not something like this class. On the other hand Mastery course is some kind of going much deeper into "specific areas". What am I missing? or is the beginner course something you're only doing F2F? Thanks!

[@KitLaughlin]

In the YT "Beginner" classes, like this one and the "Three Necks" one I made a few weeks ago, we are trying to reproduce what we used to do at the Australian National University, where we taught classes like these for 27 years. We (Liv and I) are on a break until end February, so we wanted to give our fans something to do in the meantime! We decided to release these free to gauge people's reactions to them; if enough people like them, we will make a full series (9 programs each) of Beginner's and Intermediate classes. These will be pay programs, and relatively inexpensive. Do let us know what you think.

[@alex_lit]

@@KitLaughlin thanks for your reply, I got it now. I tried all the three latest classes you released here and I absolutely loved them all! probably the "three necks" one was a tiny bit challenging for me. so, anyways, totally yes to beginner/intermediate programs! thanks again and have a lovely vacation!

[@KitLaughlin]

@@alex_lit Thank you. Now the big question: what price should we set? We want everyone to be able to have these programs, but we need to pay the bills, too!

[@alex_lit]

@@KitLaughlin boy, it's always a hard one, isn't it? I guess, I personally would be happy to pay around 100 and potentially up to 150 euro (I live in Spain). But I'd say I'm probably not very representative. will a lot of people who's just starting to stretch (if we're talking about a beginner program) be willing to pay this? no clue. probably, they'd rather go to some "mainstream provider" since when one is just starting they cannot tell apart the good from the bad (or the amazing from the good). And probably people who take stretching seriously won't go for beginner but directly to the Masters program (actually I'm thinking that I might try it but not sure if my level+dedication is worth it yet). Also beginners don't know what they want or think that they want something else. Take myself as an example. I started to look into stretching because I wanted to, say, do a full squat (no, still not there) and finally touch this freakin floor with my fingers (kinda checked) and "become more flexible" (what an abstract meaningless phrase) which again at the time meant to me actually being able to do some cool "tricks". But now I'm doing it mostly because I'm enjoying and it makes me feel better (don't get me wrong I still want that full squat eventually, hahahhaha, but at some point it just stopped being a priority). I might be totally and utterly wrong but my impression is that you're not very popular "on the internets". And it's a huge shame. I mean, I've been following you on the YT since around 2020 because Tom Merrick mentioned you in one of his stretching videos that I'm following for quite a while now. But it wasn't until these recent tutorials that I decided to actually try your follow-along and got absolutely amazed. But it might be that now I'm ready to consume the information you give, I've been kinda into stretching and kinda practicing for a couple of years now. And honestly I think that probably a year ago I couldn't've been able to follow the queues you're giving cause I simply couldn't feel my own body "well enough". But it also might be that I could've and it would've taken me much less time to feel my body should've I started with your program. No idea. So, I really think that you guys need to promote yourselves. Not only to become crazily rich (ok, jk) but because loads of people would benefit enormously from following your programs. Or at least that's what I believe. Like, how many people there are that want to start stretching and go to some yoga classes and then think that they're absolutely hopeless in that sense. Easier said than done of course. The "do this stretch every day to blah-blah" and "full pancake in 15 days" type of videos that gain popularity is not your style at all. But Captain Obvious says that with a wider audience one can afford selling programs cheaper simply because more people are buying them. Have you thought about doing a crowdfunding like Emmet did? Even if it fails, you'd get the idea of how much your audience is willing to pay. Anyways, all of the above is a useless chit-chat from a person who has no experience in either topic whatsoever. It's just an interesting subject for me and I've been thinking about it a lot recently. Not the price, but how people perceive stretching.

[@KitLaughlin]

@@alex_lit I'd be very happy to discuss this wth you further if you care to; my email is kit_l at mac.com (that's kit underscore letter 'L' at mac dot com). The programs will be less expensive than your estimates, too. We intend to make quite a few of these. If I teach a Beginner's class, it will have quite a different feel to Olivia teaching the same material-an we love to cater to different learning styles/flavours.

[@flipandbounce]

Beginners if you're pain free and quite supple already.

[@KitLaughlin]

No, no necessarily so (if you are less flexible than I am, you just imitate the form of what I am doing. Plenty of beginners are more flexible, you might be surprised to know). And if you are in pain, then start here: stretchtherapy.net/back-pain-relief/