Long Held Piriformis Stretch | Step-by-step Workshop

[@stevenmackintosh8160]

This is incredibly effective. Have been doing it 4 times a week for a month now and the difference is huge. Crazy how fast it has worked for me. I can relax in the end position completely now while at the beginning i couldn't even get 90 degrees front leg or my back leg straight and it was incredibly intense. Thanks so much for these videos!

[@KitLaughlin]

Your experience is gold, Steven. When anyone starts any stretching routine, the experience in the body in that session is that nothing will ever move, and that you are blocked here, there, and everywhere. If you do the work gently, pay attention to what's happening inside the body, and rest enough, in six months you will be living in a different body, and you will not be able to remember not being able to move!

[@sabelch]

You've started uploading again! Very cool!

[@KitLaughlin]

Free book, too. See the description.

[@KitLaughlin]

sabelch, your comment about having the first edition has disappeared! What kind of a lowlife would tear the hip flexor pages out!

[@julietteskywalker636]

Thank you for the upload. Love your content! Just did the hole sequence and it's amazing! Really deep stretches, really nice! I hope you keep on uploading :)

[@KitLaughlin]

Go to our Home page (stretchtherapy.net) and sign on to our newsletter; over the next week and months we are planning a great deal more free content.

[@Seedy446]

That was intense!

[@pallavidesai7185]

Enjoyed this one! The push pull stretch was very good.

[@KitLaughlin]

She knows what she's doing!

[@pallavidesai7185]

@@KitLaughlin More than agree :)

[@ronross9752]

Thanks for another great stretching method. I think I have had a problem in this area for many years as I remember searching youtube years ago for a solution to my pains and I came across a video from Kit when he was still young :) Your techniques are extremely effective and I can imagine that being present in your classes would be even more beneficial because I have to just guess that I am doing the technique correctly on youtube. Once traveling becomes normal again I will try and attend one of your ST for performance workshops somewhere in the world to fix a few of my stubborn issues with my body. Many thanks for these posts.

[@KitLaughlin]

Ross, the "Into the Stretch" beginning workshop is the one to do, even if you are relatively flexible. That's because we go into the "how to do" parts in much more depth that we do in the performance workshops. ITS is the one we recommend to everyone.

[@vermidian_]

Ooh yay! Thanks for this! Not sure how difficult it was to setup the multiple cameras and audio, but very helpful. Many thanks!

[@KitLaughlin]

Audio: not too hard (lav. mic > transmitter > receiver > recorder); and from memory, four fixed cameras. We have live mixing and recording to disc now, but I am in all these recent videos, so only pressed "Record" on all devices and edited multi-cam in FCPX after. Cheers, K

[@vermidian_]

@@KitLaughlin Most excellent. Thanks for the response. :)

[@KitLaughlin]

Forgot to add the detail about the giveaway of the PDF version of Stretching & Flexibility; see description above!

[@MrSixStitch]

If I can't get my front leg into that 90 degree position, is it still worth following this sequence?

[@KitLaughlin]

The more common version is a yoga posture called the 'pigeon pose.' It is done with the front leg folded completely closed-but accordingly, there is little effect on piriformis. Opening out the front knee to 90°, as is shown here, externally rotate the femur in the hip joint, and it is that action which subjects piriformis to stretching, when the sacrum moves from vertical to less than vertical. I explain all this to make the next point: if you can only open at the front leg's knee to 45°, the effect on piriformis is lessened, but the pose still works gluteus maximus and much of the fascia around all four external rotators, including piriformis. So, in short, yes definitely worth doing even if you can't open the front knee out to 90°. In time you will be able to. As you externally rotate your leg inside the hip joint, and then lean forward (either to the mid-shin line or eventually to the foot), you will feel with no ambiguity that piriformis is very strongly involved as you move the sacrum. Keep playing with this.

[@MrSixStitch]

@@KitLaughlin Thank you for this lengthy explanation!