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.