How To 10x Your Stretching and Flexibility Gains

The 7 Steps to Get Flexible Faster

Whether you can barely touch your toes or are one inch away from the splits, flexibility is gained step-by-step.

This is true for any physical cultivation (strength, endurance, etc.) In fact, if you reflect on anything you've achieved, it likely happened in levels, or stages.

For example, if you set out to climb Mt. Everest, you climb for a while, then set up a base camp. This is the foundation for the rest of your journey to the summit. You then climb up to a higher level, and set up another base camp - “Base Camp 2.” You’ve now added another level, and gotten one step closer to the goal. Then, from that foundation, you go for the summit.

Similarly, if you’re going to build a pain free, flexible body that gives you the freedom to do the things you love, then you have to think of your progress in the same way.

The Mobility Mountain

Fixing injuries and getting flexibility will also happen in stages and these stages correspond with new habits you install in to your life. These new habits start to add up and even begin to multiply over time.

Installing each of these habits into your life is good. Getting all 7 is MAGIC.

So how do you take an idea like this, and actually apply it to your
mobility / flexibility training?

The Power of the "Compound Effect"

These 7 Pillars add-up to accelerate your progress...

The 3 Take-Away Lessons Are:

There’s a formula to getting flexible. There’s a system, and a process for doing this in your own life.
When you do one of these things effectively, you get growth. But if you do more than one of them at the same time, you get an “increase in the increase” of your growth. You get a COMPOUNDING effect.
When you do all of them together, it has a multiplying or exponential effect that is far greater than the sum of its parts.

This is the secret of building a pain free, flexible body 10x faster and more effectively than if you are only doing one or two of these pillars.

For example, let’s say you learn a few techniques to do myofascial release on your muscles and you start to feel better. And let’s say that this means 1-2 less visits to the chiropractor/therapist that you were previously doing...

Now that you have that 1-2 hours back, and have more free time - what to do with it? You can invest that extra 1-2 hours per day of reclaimed time, not just on any activity...but in a HIGH LEVERAGE area.

Time and attention is very precious, so we want to intentionally invest it in the place in our training / practice that will give us the biggest "bang-for-our-buck." The biggest results in pain relief, range of motion improvement, and body-resilience.

Each of the 7 Pillars is a "High Leverage" area.

When you invest your attention in these high-leverage activities of tissue work, stretching and strengthening (the first 3 pillars), this is what brings you the high returns.

So now you’re feeling better than ever...is this the best you can do? Of course not! We can't stop there...

What happens when you take that increased freedom of movement, and invest a few minutes a day in a mindfulness practice that makes you 2-3x more effective in EVERY mobility session that you do?

Mindfulness = Focus + Relaxation

How much more effective would your stretching sessions be if you were more focused and more relaxed?

Can you see how these pillars combine together to create magnified results? This is the multiplying power of combining these core habits of building your ideal body. It’s the power of compounding, but applied to your body and your athletic life.

THIS is why the rich get richer, success breeds success, and “to those that have, more will be given."

And by the way, we’re only talking about improving three or four pillars of your mobility practice. What happens when you combine all seven pillars? In short, a transformation happens. If you REALLY do this, it can accelerate your progress exponentially, and make you FEEL better than you could even imagine.

I know it can sound too good to be true but I’m sure you’ve seen compounding interest charts, and you know that quote that people attribute to Einstein about "compounding interest being the most powerful force in the universe..."

In compounding interest charts, you notice that all of the big growth
happens at the end, in the later years, because you’ve built so much
momentum, and you have such a powerful base built - that you can
build on top of.

Well that’s how these pillars and mobility / life skills work. If you do
just one of them, you can get real growth, which is exciting. But if you do another one, and combine it with the first, you turn the angle of growth upward even more.

Then adding a third pillar skill increases the growth even more. They
actually compound each other. And if you do all seven, this is when you get the really massive payoffs. This is when you start to really be able to reap the rewards of all of the work you’ve done, and get the total body-freedom and flexibility that you are after.