Everybody is saying that I look and move so stiff. I’ve been getting complaints on this constantly lately:
“you looked a little tight there.”
“your worse than a damn Bodybuilder”
“GO STRETCH!”
“Man, you need to work on your flexibility”
“Just relax man…”
“Stop moving like a damn robot”
Most of these complaints come from doing some upperbody stuff, then during the conditioning is when they start saying this crap. So I’m sure most of this results from fatigue. They’ve never actually seen me run at full-speed while fresh. I know most of it has to deal with my lower back problems I’ve had lately. I’ve gotten some good therapy on it(ART, Myofascial, etc.). For about a month, I wasn’t able to touch my knee’s from a standing hamstring stretch. After I got the therapy I can now touch my shins almost pain free. I’ve been flexible before, but I’m sure that the hamstring and back injuries I’ve had probably caused all of this.
As far as what I’m doing to improve it, I’ve been doing some: Massage, ART, Myofascial, EMS, ICE, Epsom Salt, Static and Dynamic stretching. I don’t know what else to do to help this problem. Any recommendations?