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Good stuff Emmet, I will start this tomorrow and stay dedicated until I reach my head to toe!!

Hopefully will have it by the end of the year.

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Not to get your hopes up too much but if your pike is about as good as mine in the video the average time seems to be 30 - 40 days. One person done it in 5 days! with a starting pike worse then the one I demoed. 

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Well then haha!

When I get up of a morning the first thing I do is a bit of limbering starting with a standing pike and I can get further than that! This is exciting.

With fast mode do you do the 1x36 in the morning upon waking then the 3x72 later on?

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Anyone who knows how to train with commitment can get this quick. Lots of people just stop because of the doms. I introduced it to a mate who only did like 2 sessions because it made him too sore haha

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Yeah the 1 x 36 is done upon rising  before food. Be prepared the first 10 -15 reps of this are very intense. Then the other section is done later in the day. Though I do have a couple of clients who do their whole stretching routine first thing in morning and their results are in line with what I'd expect from this.

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About 30 have gone through the full process, with a lot more starting then dropping off, most stop about the head to fist stage as then they'll have a a nice degree of freedom in their pike.

 

The people who train with me in person are mostly aerialists and pole dancers so flexed foot stretching isn't correct for their "line" .

 

The sets and reps scheme I use a lot in the pulsing type stretches after experimenting with a lot of different ones and this is the most bang for buck in terms of time and sticking to it. 

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I'm glad I am prepared then I've been doing some ballistic stretching upon waking the past 2 weeks.

50 pulses for each per side of:

Forward Bend, Side Bend, Back Bend, Drop Stance with no soreness (thank-you strong legs and Tom Kurz for all those mornings you made me dynamic stretch upon waking through the doms from the previous day).

Should I leave the other ballistic stretches for now or are they still okay to do?

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No leave them in. This is only one specific stretch. I'd normally do 4-5 in a session. This would be a lead on from Craig's ballistic program if you're doing that. 

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You say "3 sets of 36" upon waking in the video, but the screen says 1 set of 36. I'm inclined to believe it's the former (108, after all), but you might wanna clarify that.

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Is there a difference between foot at the floor or foot elevated when doing the pulses? 

 

It has to be dorsiflexed for this. Or do you mean raise the whole leg? Raising the leg up is harder and we don't start that til H2T is achieved on the floor.

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Im in!

 

Did my 1 x 36 this morning.  My previous forays into this position mean that it wasn't actually too uncomfortable!.

 

Doing my 3 x 90s now, then pulses! 

 

GOOOOOOO

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Doing this. Did it today. Starting at elbow to toe as my end range. Hoping for 45 days head to toe. Probably did about 2 sets extra just for kicks.

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My first day update. 

 

So I just finished my 3x72 and I did my 1x36 this morning. The progress is astounding!!

 

When I started this morning my absolute cold rom was an inch or two from same side elbow fist plus full thumb after the 1x36 on each leg I hit same side elbow plus fist.

 

Just before starting the 3x72 after the 3x90s calf stretches I could hit the same rom I left with this morning straight away!! After the 3 sets of 72 bounces I was able to hit same side elbow to toe on both legs!!! I mostly felt it in my calf and the feeling was sickening literally but I pushed through it. Hopefully this unlocks my dorsiflexion also. Felt like my calves were going to snap in half but they didn't haha. 

 

Very excited to continue this until I reach head to toe and beyond!

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@Craig: You're a sick man. I still advise forward bend first. :P

 

@Matt give your calves a dose of the roll stick today and every 4-5 days. It does pass but initially it can be very tough on the calves.

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Thank you Emmet! I will try this. Already doing something similar but I like the concept of including a morning stretch, stick stretch, and doing the static calve stretches.

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