When you're trying to get more flexible, you may notice you get sore after stretching. If you experience soreness after stretching, it's not a sign you're doing something wrong. It's a sign that you are working muscles hard! Stretching to improve flexibility involves isometric, eccentric, and even concentric contractions sometimes! That's why your muscles get sore. They aren't just "relaxing" when you stretch. Your stretched muscles are actually working!

If you're too weak to do push-ups, don't worry. To get strong enough to do push-ups, you only need some simple push-up regressions you can do at home. By doing easier versions of the push-up, you can build arm strength slowly, gradually, and safely. As you get stronger shoulders, you'll get better at push-ups. And then you'll be able to do more advanced full range push-ups!

The training strategies in this video will show you how to engage the right muscles when you're doing hip, shoulder, leg, and spine exercises. If you cannot feel the right muscles fire, try 1) massage 2) work to fatigue 3) try less hard but longer 4) Adjust position 5) Add resistance.

Before you buy into conventional medical advice that suggests you sit still or get surgery to deal with joint pain, try functional training. You might find you have the power to touch your toes, do that squat, or even stand on your hands all on your own, and without pain.

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Table of Contents:

• What is the Physically Feeble Fallacy?
• Examples of the Physically Feeble Fallacy
• Example 1: You Can’t Touch Your Toes
• Example 2: You Can’t Squat
• Example 3: You Shouldn’t Lift Weights
• Example 4: You Need Surgery to Fix Your Joint Pain
• Example 5: Your Arthritis is the Problem
• Why So Many People Buy Into the Physically Feeble Fallacy
• How to Turn the Tables...

Even if you are an active person, it's highly probable that you can't touch your toes. A lot of athletes, particularly weight lifters, cannot touch their toes because they do not do the stretching and training required to touch their toes. If you want to be able to do the forward fold and touch your toes, you need to improve your flexibility safely and gradually by loading the muscles and teaching them how to handle a deep fold in the hips.

These exercises for wrist pain will help you type pain free at your computer. You can relieve wrist and hand pain from "carpal tunnel" or "thoracic outlet syndrome" by using these exercises for forearm and wrist strength.

Get better balance by strengthening leg and hip muscles. The balance exercises in this video will improve your balance and stability by building strength in your ankles, knees, and hips. You can also improve your balance with a simple balance game that you can setup at home.

Lifting weights can be good for you hips, and it can be bad for your hips. In this video you'll learn how to lift weights to safely challenge your hips, avoid causing hip pain, and ensuring that you'll have good hip mobility in the long run. If you want to relieve hip pain or prevent hip pain, lifting weights properly is 100% necessary.

Shoulder pain from wearing a backpack is a common issue. In this video you'll learn exercises to fix shoulder pain while wearing a backpack and what kind of backpack to get that will relieve shoulder tension from your backpack.

This video will help you improve your balance. You'll strengthen hip muscles and strengthen leg muscles that help you get better balance. Seniors who want to improve their balance will find these balance exercises helpful. And anyone of any age can improve balance using these exercises as well.