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Okay so stand up and take your leg straight back behind you. Don't bend the knee. Its what you do to propel yourself forward when walking. This is the muscle engagement you want when you are squatting. Get into the squat, then engage the hamstrings as if you are going to raise yourself out of the squat. Make sure you are sticking your butt out in a squat, while trying to keep your torso as vertical as possible. If you round your back forward, this takes all of the force into your quads and gives you front of the knee pain. Do squats like you are sitting back into a comfy chair. Also for hamstrings, there's bridge pose. A cue I never learned in any yoga class but figured out from studying is that while you keep your feet in the same place for bridge pose, you isometrically try to drag your heels towards you. There's also Cow pose [as in, cat-cow, but only do this from cow] Where you take one leg straight back and work on getting the inner edge of your thigh up. Engage your thigh adductors[on both legs] by engaging the muscles you'd use to squeeze something between your knees so that your leg doesn't splay out to the side. Once you find your balance in this, take your opposite arm out in front of you, palm facing towards the middle line of your body. Stretch out in both directions, and point your toes back. Act as if someone is pulling your hand foward and your foot backwards. This one is good for hamstrings and strengthening the quadratus lumborum. Easy balance mode for this exercise is to have the toes curled under. For more core work try the tops of your base foot pressing into the ground. The squeezing the legs together and rotating the inner thighs up cue is good for practing Locust pose as well. In that one be sure to suck in your stomach, firm your pelvic floor [engage muscles that stop flow of urine] and tuck your tailbone slightly like a scared dog. This is another great hamstring pose. When walking, try and sink back and use the action of the hamstrings to propel you forward instead of just throwing your bodyweight forward. Develop a good heel strike, and preferably wear shoes that don't have extra height on the heel-sole. Shoes that aren't flat really wreck your entire body. Let me know if this helps, if not I'll keep going until I find something that makes sense to you The hamstrings are one of those muscles you really have to blast with strength training everyday or else they don't see any progress, or even make sense. Hope I could help!!

"Now that you have found your pigeon, reach back to grab the ankle of your back leg and bring your heel to your butt...unclench your jaw"

I'm too openhearted! I'm always crying all the damn time and spilling my guts to anyone who will listen

I wish all of you could!!

Learning all of the muscles involved in movement of the ankle, calf, shin, knees, quads, hamstrings, hips Some of the most major changes came from 1.strengthening the VMO with knees supported on a rolled up blanket and straightening the leg 2.ankle pronators [muscle that roots the inner edge of the feet, think lifting the pinky toes while pressing the big toes into the floor] 3.deep external hip rotation muscles [Look up how to do a ballet turnout. Learning to engage these muscles is important for stuff like ZZ and martial arts and even without training in any martial form its gotten pretty difficult to knock me over whereas before the wind could blow and I would be crying on the ground.] 4.glute/external rotation muscle stretches, like half pigeon pose 5.strengthen the adductors by squeezing a block or pillow between the knees, putting the block more in between the VMOs than the knee bones. squeeze hard and criss cross the feet over and under eachother, follow with butterfly pose 6. put your fingers in between all of your toes all the way up to the webs in between the fingers past the last knuckle, separating them. squeeze the ball of your foot from this position, then squeeze your hand with your toes. this helps you learn to engage all of the individual muscles that control each toe 7. stretch quads, hip flexors, and hamstrings EQUALLY. any imbalance in these stretches will cause knee pain on the opposite side of the knee that you forgot to stretch enough 8.tuck the tail bone but not so much that it tilts your pelvis. its a very subtle action thats easier to practice laying down 9.firming root lock, sucking in stomach. if you are male eventually youll get to a point where it feels like your ballsack is starting to lift up 10. squats with an emphasis on slightly kicking back with the hamstrings. learn to find the hamstring engagement and then sit with it 11.bridge pose, then once you can do this well taking one leg up. this really blasts your glutes 12. strengthen and stretch the quadratus lumborum. everyone has a different fave way to work with this muscle so ill let everyone look into it themselves

hey do you have PMs totally disabled or just me blocked? haha...got an important message I wanna send you but I don't wanna put it on blast

from the moderator perspective i think it would be very annoying to log in and out of accounts, and if you browse with your primary posting account then you wouldn't see alerts from reports a solution to this would be to make both accounts moderators, so they still see reports.......but it would slow down moderator action even further and then there's the issue of moderator anonymity. if they have more generic names like mod1, mod2 etc, then there are always going to be those people who cry "who did this they are evil and the public deserves to know" so for accountability reasons, the mod accounts would have to go and , and that negates the entire reason for giving them separate accounts in the first place good idea, GREAT idea actually....in theory. in practice i dont think it would work out unless something can solve that second problem

Please use this thread to (politely) voice your concerns about Buddhist Discussion and ideas we could implement that would help it run smoother.

I go a little bit further than that on daobums and search the thread for the person that agrees with me and just leave a like. If you wait long enough, someone will say everything you need to say for you.

You misunderstand that as being a weakness, try thinking of it as a strength.

Also engage the transverse abdominis by doing a "suck in your stomach" action. This will help you to create the lifting action in the chest.

The way I get better results with is actually -not- closing the windpipe. The intercostals tend to disengage when I get to the top of the breath, then close the windpipe. IMO, better to continue to inhale even when your lungs have stopped expanding. This way of chest breathing strengthens the intercostals and will improve the quality of breath when not chest breathing. Also do active exhales with this. Think of the muscles of breathing as what they are, muscles. You can feel them flex, so get them some exercise.

Can you elaborate on these please? Especially the second one.

I recommend finding an experienced S&M partner for nonsexual pain experiences. Some very intense trance states are in fact possible, as well as powerful emotional releases and realizations. A strong degree of ego loss is possible. Having someone experienced doing it for you lets you push your own boundaries without going too far. If you just do it yourself, you wont get very far in regards to pushing boundaries because you will hold back. It is also possible to reach a point where you no longer bruise. Dunno the physiological mechanisms behind that, but if I had to guess, I'd say my body is learning to not view physical trauma as very....traumatic anymore. By going through experiences of extreme victimhood, it is possible to get victim mentality in check. I hesitate to say eradicate it entirely, but I haven't thought that way in quite some time. Caution though, its very addictive.

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skullcap will help your specific issue more. you can take it as a tea also, its just a lot more expensive that way out of curiousity, why cant you consume alcohol?

a tincture made from american skullcap. 1 ounce to one mason jar full of everclear[the regular size jars, not the huge ones], shake for a month and then take 2ml twice a day. according to the net, skullcap relaxes the microglials of the nerves. if you are like me, you have a pinched nerve and can take this tincture to almost completely dull the pain while you work on building more muscle support also i recommend nattokinase for general painrelief. eats through veinous scar tissue so you have better bloodflow all around. its a visible difference, as in you'll be able to see veins you weren't previously after dosing it every day for a month. its important to keep taking it every day. in the beginning it gives you a bit of an upset tummy, so take it with food.

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if you could see The Abyss you'd be thanking us that the majority of the stuff there got hidden (my wry observation)

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