An addendum to #4
did 3 new exercises.
I first started with 2 new dynamic stretching exercises, called spiderman crawl and Frankensteins.
Here’s a video of the
Spiderman Crawl.
It wasn’t even that easy and here I really noticed how stiff my hip joints are.. really need to work on loosening these up again with the neglected Mensendieck exercises.
Frankensteins
Extend your arms out in front of your chest. In the process of your walk, swing one leg into the air keeping the leg as straight as possible to achieve a hamstring stretch, and attempt to hit your hands.
Really easy exercise! Superfast way to stretch hamstrings.
And finally at the end, tried out how an assisted pull up works in the gym’s cable station. It involves putting on a belt and attaching the cables to the rings on the belt. It is a bit tricky to set up, but doable when you really can’t do pull-ups at all or want to crank out 10 (I can manage 4 with a lot of effort). Obviously our gym doesn’t have an assisted pullup machine.