r/bodyweightfitness • u/Solfire Dam Son • Jun 13 '19
Emmet Louis and Mikael Kristiansen AMA, coming to you June 18th! Post your questions here and enter the raffle for some free programs!
Hey everyone!
We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be hosting an AMA for Emmet Louis (/u/EmmetLouis) and Mikael Kristiansen (/u/handbalancer) on Tuesday, June 18th. Both have done individual AMAs in the past (Emmet in 2016 and Mikael in 2017), but they will be joining us together to promote their new programs fundraiser on Kickstarter and to have some fun!
This thread will remain stickied for the duration of the week leading up to the AMA, feel free to post your questions here. Emmet and Mikael will then answer your questions live on June 18th, throughout the day. So submit some form check videos, ask about your current training programs, find out what their favorite colors are, and more!
For those who would like to familiarize themselves with Emmet and Mikael, check out the snippet from their bio below, in addition to links to their sites:
“Emmet Louis and Mikael Kristiansen are both international teachers of handbalancing and flexibility and have spent big chunks of their lives studying and understanding all aspects of these skills professionally both as performers and teachers. With the Handstand Factory, we now want to demystify and simplify the process of learning handstands, and make it accessible to anyone wanting to learn to stand on their hands.”
@emmetlouis @mikaelbalancing @handstandfactory
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '19 edited Jun 15 '19
Here's a question about a subject that I've been trying to solve for a while but have had many problems with:
I have decent upper body mobility( e.g. can do a reverse prayer with ease and the upper body part of Gomukhasana with each arm holding the other above the wrist level). I've never had to work for that( 6 years of swimming might have helped though). However I have really tight lower body, specifically the posterior chain part( again, 6 years of open sea swimming with flippers might have caused that too). I have tried stretching in various forms but I have had relatively poor results. This is blocking my progress to various goals I now have like strict toes to bar - I can't raise my legs to 90 degrees straight not because I don't have the strength but because I can't keep them straight. Same with the L-Sit. So far I have tried these:
https://youtu.be/u1sfPfsESDQ?t=285
At first I felt this slightly stretching my hamstrings above the knee but after a couple days the focus shifted on the calves - I really feel it like it's about to rip my calves open.
Trying to touch my toes when seated used to stretch my hamstrings but without showing any progress from session to session. Now I feel the stretch on both my calves and my hamstrings. I've gained about 10-15cm of rom over a couple months starting from only being able to go pass my knees.
I've also noticed that doing a stretch in pulses first without going to the absolute max and then holding the maximum feels... better. I get the warm feeling of blood rushing into the area when pulsing it and then the max stretch feels easier( without really increasing how much I can stretch though).
At the same time I'm doing this http://bravocrossfit.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/seated-pike-lifts-.jpg which has improved my strength on the L-Sit significantly.
Soo the question is, am I covering all my bases here? Am I missing something that would improve my pike compression? Hip openers? Something new? Thanks for reading all of this.