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8/4/2025, 2:36:48 AM
>>76448693
>>76448693
I've trained actual circus performers and dancers and can promise you that flexibility is the most genetically pre-determined aspect of fitness, far more so that strength, size or stamina.
These shills gloss over the fact that muscle length is rarely the limiting factor during these feats of flexibility. Your bone structure and tendon composition are so much more influential; both of these things are almost entirely genetic. Some people are just "generally hypermobile" as we say in the business. Their joints have shallow sockets and their tendons have a different collagen structure. Funnily enough, both of these things are correlated with autism btw
The side splits are a classic example of this. If you'll look at my shitty picrel, you'll see a normal male hip on the left and a dysplasic (likely female) hip on the right. If the guy on the left does the side splits *even if his adductors are flexible,* eventually his femur impinges upon his hip socket. He'll probably stretch for years, only to tolerate the pinching pain but never really eliminate it - truth is, you can't out-stretch bad bone structure.
The hip on the right meanwhile, will do the splits effortlessly. This person may ironically feel more tightness in their muscles, simply because the lack of a deep socket to provide stability means that the muscles have to tense up constantly or the hip will dislocate.
This flexy dude is most likely born with general hypermobility, he might even have a connective tissue disorder like Marfan's syndrome. The biggest signs are a) he whines about being in pain all the time and b) he's flexible EVERYWHERE. Like, he's flexible in his fingers, neck, spine, toes - do you seriously think he's training every single joint? No. Trained adaptations are local but genetic ones are usually body-wide.
>t. Physiotherapy fag who works with a lot of hyper-flexible patients
>>76448693
I've trained actual circus performers and dancers and can promise you that flexibility is the most genetically pre-determined aspect of fitness, far more so that strength, size or stamina.
These shills gloss over the fact that muscle length is rarely the limiting factor during these feats of flexibility. Your bone structure and tendon composition are so much more influential; both of these things are almost entirely genetic. Some people are just "generally hypermobile" as we say in the business. Their joints have shallow sockets and their tendons have a different collagen structure. Funnily enough, both of these things are correlated with autism btw
The side splits are a classic example of this. If you'll look at my shitty picrel, you'll see a normal male hip on the left and a dysplasic (likely female) hip on the right. If the guy on the left does the side splits *even if his adductors are flexible,* eventually his femur impinges upon his hip socket. He'll probably stretch for years, only to tolerate the pinching pain but never really eliminate it - truth is, you can't out-stretch bad bone structure.
The hip on the right meanwhile, will do the splits effortlessly. This person may ironically feel more tightness in their muscles, simply because the lack of a deep socket to provide stability means that the muscles have to tense up constantly or the hip will dislocate.
This flexy dude is most likely born with general hypermobility, he might even have a connective tissue disorder like Marfan's syndrome. The biggest signs are a) he whines about being in pain all the time and b) he's flexible EVERYWHERE. Like, he's flexible in his fingers, neck, spine, toes - do you seriously think he's training every single joint? No. Trained adaptations are local but genetic ones are usually body-wide.
>t. Physiotherapy fag who works with a lot of hyper-flexible patients
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