Tips on exercise for hypermobile people

[rydra_wong]

Because I know a lot of y'all are, I thought this might be of interest:

GMB: Hypermobility Exercises: Keeping Yourself Injury-Free while Training

The article is appropriately clear that they're not qualified to give advice for people with EDS and other full-on connective tissue conditions, but it's got tips and some interesting exercises for building strength and stability at the point just before your end range of motion.

As always, I pass it on under Bruce Lee rules: take what works for you and discard the rest.

ETA: I'm not hypermobile myself so can't evaluate directly; if you are and this seems obviously off-base, please comment!

Comments

[nineveh_uk]

As someone with mild hypermobility that causes issue on occasion, and who is just about to up her exercise programme (i.e. force myself to go running and do some HIIT) that looks a great resource, thank you for linking.

[rydra_wong]

I'm not hypermobile myself so can't evaluate it directly, but I've found other stuff from GMB to be pretty informative.

[nineveh_uk]

It certainly chimes in well with general advice on addressing this kind of hypermobility that I've had from physios.

[indywind]

Seconded -- from my perspective as hypermobile, this is a nice summary for general fitness audiences of What I Wish People Knew About Hypermobility In Exercise, agrees with information from physio professionals and my own experience, sometimes learned the hard way.

I'm sharing this with my fitness/yoga acquaintances --lots of (often undiagnosed/unreconized) hypermobile folks seem to show up in yoga, so this information has high relevance.

[alexseanchai]

*nabs link*

[rydra_wong]

I hope it's of use! I'm not hypermobile myself so can't vouch for it directly (have now edited to mention that in the post), but I've found the site informative on other stuff.

[cesy]

Interesting, and good principles.

[rydra_wong]

Yeah, it seemed sound. I'm not hypermobile myself so can't vouch for it directly, but have found their advice decent on other stuff.

[dhampyresa]

That is very interesting and potentially useful, thank you.

[niqaeli]

I haven't read all the details, but what I have read through squares with my experience as an LMT that's worked on a lot of hypermobile people, particularly EDSers (and also, well, with being hypermobile myself). The principles actually apply to people who have straight-up EDS as well, it's just... that you often have to start using them on a much, much smaller scale than most physios have ever been trained to do so. (As you may have seen kaberett discuss, recently.) And of course there can be and often are co-morbidities that complicate things further still.

(My actual suspicion would be that the physios who are the most likely to be at all useful to EDSers, especially early on in building strength, failing having found yourself the beautiful and wondrous unicorn of ones who specialise in hypermobile patients and have familiarity with EDS, would be those who specialise in geriatric populations. As that's another population where yes you often do have to start very, very small in terms of building strength up, so the idea that, no, you can't start with that much weight, no not even THAT much -- or little, rather -- would be less new and Now I Have To Educate My Own Goddamn Medical (Para-)Professionals In Order To Stop Them Fucking Injuring Me. *wry*)

[fred_mouse]

Thank you! I will point my mildly hyper mobile teens at it, as well as reading through it in hopes of decreasing the number of family injuries.

[pebblerocker]

Thank you! That could be helpful for my issues.