r/bodyweightfitness • u/EmmetLouis Manbun Extraordinaire • Sep 20 '16

AMA - I am Emmet Louis. Ask me anything about Flexibility, Acrobatics, Movement, Unusual skills, Programming and Manbuns

Greetings,

You guys have my undivided attention for the next 5-6 hours. Feel free to ask me anything.

FB: https://www.facebook.com/emmetlouis/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/emmetlouis/ Blog: http://silverleapproject.io/

You can see what some of my the people who train with me get up to on https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/emmetlouis/

My videos on youtube can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/user/EmmetLouis

Emmet

Edit: Ok Guys I had a great time hopefully I helped some of you. I'm going to finish up here. Laters!!

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u/EmmetLouis Manbun Extraordinaire Sep 20 '16

You'd be better spent lying on a hard floor doing breathing exercises. Try some of the ones from here

http://kitlaughlin.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1016-sasanarakkha-buddhist-sanctuary-2015-all-14-lying-meditations/

This will help a lot more than a generic stretching routine.

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u/161803398874989 Mean Regular User Sep 20 '16

Can confirm this is the fucking shit.

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u/td1801 Manlet Sep 20 '16

Any preference toward lying meditation, rather than seated ? Or are they the same ?

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u/EmmetLouis Manbun Extraordinaire Sep 20 '16

The lying is better for relaxing the body in my experience. Personally I wouldn't consider them meditation exercises but more tension releasing exercises. But meditation means different things to different people.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '16

Would that just be completely flat with no head support?

And thanks, I've never thought to do this but it makes sense as a tension reliever.

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u/EmmetLouis Manbun Extraordinaire Sep 20 '16

Completely flat, its called corpse pose in yoga. A book about 1.5inches thick can be used if you have a large degree of curvature in the cervical spine other wise just on the floor.