Dan John's View on Stretching - Page 4

Joshua F Hillis · 11-25-2005, 05:59 AM

Pavel talks about "prying" in Strength Stretching (NOT Loaded Stretching), and also at the Unlock! Seminar.

Basically it's exactly what it sounds like - for example in the squat you could get into your current lowest position of the squat, or doing a wall squat or whatever, and literally try to "pry" yourself some more flexibility. Rhythmically working your way lower (but not bouncing) and using your breath to relax yourself more. Exhaling = relaxing.

Also, prying stretching is like anything else you would "pry", it's not necessarily straight up and down, you kind of work it around different directions a little bit. Think about prying a post out of the ground - you don't just pull straight up, you pry it left and right and up, then all different directions again.

So while you are prying yourself deeper, you are almost using a little bit of the "forced relaxation" from Pavel's Relax into the Stretch, but rhythmically and repeatedly.

I've found I can pry quite a bit of flexibility in about 20 minutes, enough for me to pull off a legit overhead squat. But it's WORK.

Also, you REALLY wouldn't want to pry before you workout, you feel pretty beat up afterwards. The only reason I do it before I overhead squat is 'cause I'm not at a point where I can overhead squat correctly without it yet. And also I'm only overhead squatting with PVC pipe so far.

But I've only been seriously working on my overhead squat for two weeks...

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11-25-2005, 05:59 AM	#31
Joshua F Hillis Member Profile: Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Rio De Janeiro RJ Posts: 204	Pavel talks about "prying" in Strength Stretching (NOT Loaded Stretching), and also at the Unlock! Seminar. Basically it's exactly what it sounds like - for example in the squat you could get into your current lowest position of the squat, or doing a wall squat or whatever, and literally try to "pry" yourself some more flexibility. Rhythmically working your way lower (but not bouncing) and using your breath to relax yourself more. Exhaling = relaxing. Also, prying stretching is like anything else you would "pry", it's not necessarily straight up and down, you kind of work it around different directions a little bit. Think about prying a post out of the ground - you don't just pull straight up, you pry it left and right and up, then all different directions again. So while you are prying yourself deeper, you are almost using a little bit of the "forced relaxation" from Pavel's Relax into the Stretch, but rhythmically and repeatedly. I've found I can pry quite a bit of flexibility in about 20 minutes, enough for me to pull off a legit overhead squat. But it's WORK. Also, you REALLY wouldn't want to pry before you workout, you feel pretty beat up afterwards. The only reason I do it before I overhead squat is 'cause I'm not at a point where I can overhead squat correctly without it yet. And also I'm only overhead squatting with PVC pipe so far. But I've only been seriously working on my overhead squat for two weeks...