Is it shorter muscles? Can most people get as flexible as a yoga master if they just stretch more?
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Part of the reason stretching and other exercises work is that they’re also training your brain to be comfortable in the new positions.
Watch any young children and they have the flexibility of yoga masters. But after a lifetime of sitting at school, sitting while at work, sitting while riding in a car, etc, their brains signal any kind of stretching as something that’s not supposed to be happening. That’s the initial discomfort people feel when stretching.
Through different exercises, it’s possible to retrain your brain to understand that being stretched out is ok, and through that, we can unlock the natural flexibility that we have.
So, like everything, it’s a bit of one’s nature, and a bit of one’s habits.
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