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[vicarz]

"Folks with serious joint laxity should not only contraindicate certain yoga poses, but also modify others so that they’re training stability short of the true end-range of their joints. Unfortunately, most of the people you’ll see in yoga classes are hypermobile women; you see, they like to do the things they’re good at doing, not necessarily what they need to do."

Fantastic quote from a gym site that applies to pretty much everything.

Comments

[kuanyin00.livejournal.com]

I've heard this, as well. It's not good to extend beyond one's normal range of motion (and it's best NOT to extend through one's normal range if hypermobile).

I stopped yoga years ago because it was hard for me to make this call.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

I just have sinned this particular sin too much myself, am happy I recognize it, and encourage others:
Doing things you're good at doesn't make them, or you, good.

I have always been anti-sports, but in current struggles over teaching methods, I've hard some cries to let children fail and struggle because that will teach them how to overcome adversity, how to toughen up and not be hurt by failing a first time, and learning strategies to get better. I've heard a lot of people talk about sports this way, to teach overcoming failure (and working as a team / social skills) through physical activity when the real lesson applies to other arenas. I like the lesson, to face failure and not be deconstructively harmed by it (whether I think sports are an effective place to learn that - jury is out).

While the reference is about yoga, I love the idea that the best practitioners may be blind to the fact that what worked for them was not the best for everybody, or necessarily even for most.

[frontdoorangel.livejournal.com]

I'm hypermobile and I didn't know until I visited a new Rheumatologist last month.

This only relates to this post because I *did* take yoga in college and the instructor was incredibly rude on my first day because she acted as if I was too fat to do yoga. She actually came right out on the first day and said, "If you are here for weight loss, there are other classes for that." So yeah, in some ways it was really nice showing up the bitch by having no problem doing any of the moves. I always knew I was super flexible but, I didn't know that being "double jointed" was even a real thing.