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

[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.