Yoga and Pilates
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Found helpful tips at Knuckle Cracking 101: for Therapists and Clients:
WebMD suggests trying the following hand, wrist and finger exercises for increasing flexibility and strength:
1. Rotating your wrist up, down, and from side to side.
2. Stretching your fingers far apart, then relaxing them, then stretching them again.
3. Squeezing a rubber ball.
4. Wrist curls and extensions with a light weight.[…]
The cracking of finger and hand joints can be deliberate or unintentional. In either case, maintaining flexibility in the hand is governed by the health of its muscles, tendons and ligaments. Stressing the joint capsule may result in an audibly satisfying pop, but the long- term results show potential for tissue damage. If you or someone you know is a habitual cracker, or experiences inadvertent snapping with hand activity, periodic finger bends, stretches and exercises are the best preventative measure for maintaining hand health.
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Here they were quoting www.webmd.com, Exercises for flexibility and strength in your hand, wrist and arm, 2/4/05.
We should collect more of these exercises.
I'm currently especially interested on streching exercises for your neck, shoulders, ankles and toes. :roll:Massaging seems to help with neck, shoulders and ankles. Looking up and down helps with neck too. Streching toes apart helps. Can't think of any useful ankle exercise. Any ideas?
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To the person who listened to the chiropractor - that was a silly mistake - they are bad not what you were doing.
But i am 14 and i have just read it and i will try and do what you did, i already get some headaches sometimes so thanks.
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Interesting article quotes thanks
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This is ALL good but also controversial for trying to STOP cracking
Through dedicated yoga practice, I now crack all/most joints
That is not the goal, but, for me as a cracker, joint mobilization by stretching(which is a fundamental part of yoga practice) creates Cracks. Passively.
In yoga classes some people crack and some don't
I've seen peolpe way more flexible than me NOT crack at all!
But I can not practice without lots of cracks, pops, booms.
They all feel great, normal and natural. I know when they are coming. And they create a feeling of release.yoga is def not just 'all about the spine' as mentioned above
it's all about the Body, mind, and spirit in union
the spine being part of the body, is of course critical, but so is everything else.
Yoga will give you stretches that promote flexibility and ROM in turn facilitating cracks(for crackers).
If you LOVE cracking. Yoga is for you.
Heck if you enjoy health and exercise yoga is for you.But what I'm really saying here involves common sense.
If you practice yoga, or anything else involving intense stretching like Martial arts or gymnastics, with dedication, you will improve your flexibility /ROM .which if you crack, will INCREASE your ability to crack, not STOP it. You may even start cracking new joints as the ligaments and muscles become more flexible.:idea:
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Yoga sounds interesting
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Yeh but limited at first.
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Limited a first ? not sure I understand.
of course you don't start karate class with a black belt right?
Just because you won't be the next Michael Jordan doesn't mean you don't exercise.
The journey of a thousand miles starts with 1 step Grasshopper. -
yeah but i'd rather be good at something than rubbish at it tbh
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I second Mastercracker. I've been doing yoga off and on for seven years, and the cracking definitely increases when I do it more often (more frequent, more joints). Yoga increases cracking, at least for me. But it feels freakin good!
The benefits of yoga are many… I highly recommend it to everyone here. But everyone has their own priorities and goals, and I'd say if you are trying to NOT crack, then don't get your hopes up with thinking yoga is the cure...quite the opposite in my experience.
If you want to be more aware of and in tune with your body, and if you like the idea of learning to accept and embrace it as it is, then by all means go to yoga.
Namaste!
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Interesting 1st post!
Welcome to the board kyle
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Limited a first ? not sure I understand.
of course you don't start karate class with a black belt right?
Just because you won't be the next Michael Jordan doesn't mean you don't exercise.
The journey of a thousand miles starts with 1 step Grasshopper.What film is grasshopper from and you could be black belt lol.
Michael Jackson isn't an amazing athlete now.
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can't remember what movie or tv series 'grasshopper' is from
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As far as I know Michael JACKSON never was an athlete Blaze.
All though he had moves.
Then he started moving in on little boys n now no one cares about that perv.Yoga is for Crackers
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can't remember what movie or tv series 'grasshopper' is from
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As far as I know Michael JACKSON never was an athlete Blaze.
All though he had moves.
Then he started moving in on little boys n now no one cares about that perv.Yoga is for Crackers
The stretching part anyway.i'd rather do some sort of faster yoga
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there are literally dozens of styles/schools
I've been practicing for 8 years and still am learning new styles like
'acroyoga'
If you want fast instead of slow it already exists
check into: hatha vinyasa yoga, ashtanga yoga, and especially Jivamuktia yoga.jivamukti yoga is like yoga boot camp
it's hard to keep up
you have to be very strong and have endurance
and you will be pushed to the limits of your strength and willpower
if you take a classNo walk in the park there homeboy,
Bod8 i'd be surprised if you could keep up in a jivamukti class
it would probably break you
I've only tried it once or twice
and it almost broke me
but I' looking forward to the next oneps the jivamukti style for me did not facilitate cracking. it moved to fast.
it was great, but something slower(but prob still faster than your thinking) like vinyasa instigates Lots of cracking , at least for crackers. -
Ok i mean Michael Jordan - he is past his prime after Chicago Bulls…then went to Washington Wizards to help out.
Yoga though - if you are like the only 14-18 year old with like 30 year old women - a lil weird?
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its all in your head Blaze
where do you get the idea that it's just 30yr old women?
yoga is for all ages
find a teen yoga class they exist
go to a gym(although thats less traditional yoga, and more like areobics)
there are always younger people in those classes
wait til your 30 , i don't care
practice at home w dvd or tv instruction
I do all the time
You need a teacher to help in the beginning
to get your postures straightBLAZE IS AFRAID OF 30YR OLD WOMEN
They don't bite. At least not in class.
Blaze when you see a 30 yr old woman coming down the street do you drop your books and run. LoL
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Ok one - i don't walk down the streets holding books - more hands in pockets, ipod on etc. Or cycling about no hands and skidding.
2: Im not scared - just i don't see many advertisements for teen yoga classes.
3: The gym is closest and most accessible for me where i play squash - #1 in youth league
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I'm not here to push Yoga
I'm just saying I now use yoga stretches to crack as well as stretch
and if you like cracking half as much as me yoga can teach you the best and safest ways to crack.
Thanks for backing me up Kyle
I knew I couldn't be the only one
Kyle's wright "feels Great"
thats the bottom lineBLAZE IS SCARED OF 30yr OLD Women
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Ok MC - let's go with that.
Thanks for the biting thing.
Cya
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so sensitive
My apologies
Blaze when i was 14 i was in Love with 30yr old women
it's ok your not
but you shouldn't let that stop you from learning safe ways to crack and stretch
