Troubleshooting Pectineus ZST ~Certainty~

Troubleshooting Pectineus ZST ~Certainty~ When it comes to ~Certainty~ ZST and inability to perform this technique correctly or perform it at all, we want to look at possible issues. Rectus Femoris – a particularly important muscle that can get in the way of ~Certainty~ ZST, simply because it requires the knee to be extended and the hip to be flexed for the muscle to be in a short range. If the muscle is not flexible enough needing to go into hip extension, although ~Certainty~ ZST is hip extension/abduction, it is not a pure hip extension, with a flexed knee, can prevent this technique from being performed correctly. So, if you can get into position but the second you have to flex your knee you feel your hips being pulled back, you may need to work on flexibility of Rectus Femoris by practicing ~Clarity~ ZST. Psoas and Iliacus can also get it the way of you being able to perform ~Certainty~ ZST correctly. Psoas and Iliacus are also flexors of the hip and adductors like Pectineus. However, these muscles are lateral rotators while the Pectineus is a medial rotator. If you notice that you are trying to reach back to grab the foot and you can only do that by flexing your body to the same side, you are trying to shorten the Psoas at your lumbar while it is being lengthened at the hip. If this happens then Psoas might be the reason why you are not able to perform ~Certainty~ ZST correctly.The Next reason why you are having difficulty performing ~Certainty~ ZST correctly may be the front leg. I found this to be less of a case compared to the previous two examples, but it does happen. if someone has tight adductor Magnus and also sometimes Adductor Longus, since Adductor Longus does extend the hip past 70degrees of flexion, they can interfere with the position of the front leg and thus the front leg still requires some flexibility in those muscles. If they are very tight it could be an issue and if that's the case you have to practicea ZST called ~Reverence~ Pectineus – If you are working on other muscles to allow you to get to Pectineus, you can also try and work on Pectineus in other ways and at the same time strengthen it and strengthen its antagonists. ~Integrity~ ZST targets the short upper adductors, it also partially targets the Pectineus, so if you can perform ~Integrity~ ZST, you should, and you will partially target Pectineus. ~Purity~ ZST can also be applied here. If you are not sure how to perform ~Integrity~ ZST correctly, stay tuned for my trouble shooting guide on ~Integrity~ ZST. The exercises that strengthen the Pectineus are Supine Flies, which are great to target the Pectineus, especially if you do not help with your hands because there is a tendency for the legs to fall down and Pectineus is in a goodposition not only to do horizontal adduction but also to hold the legs up, so you will be working the Pectineus and many people are surprised when they do this exercise without the assistance of the hands that they actually hitPectineus pretty square. Martial Arts Front Stance is a great exercise for Pectineus. Ideally this would be the front stand where the back toes are also forward not just the front toes and the legs are not one behind the other but there is side to side distance. You can also do a Long Lunge, when you do the Long Lunge you would move the back leg to theside, so the legs are not one behind the other this also would work on Pectineus contracting it in a stretched position. Of course there are many more elaborate and specialized exercises for Pectineus but these ones would serve the purpose. Some people who perform ~Certainty~ ZST cannot get into the position because the body is trying to protect and strengthening the Pectineus muscle will help with that. But also, sometimes there’s an ability to contract the opposing muscle, and we know that contracting the opposing muscle will relax the target muscle. So, in this case the opposing muscle would be the Glutes since there's a lateral rotation extension and also sometimes the abduction depending on the part of the Glutes, which is opposite to what Pectineus does. And there are many exercises a really good one is being in a prone position face down and simply lifting straight legs up one at a time, and if you turn the legs out at the hip that would be even better and even more targeted for Pectineus antagonist. Some people are able to perform ~Certainty~ ZST but cannot get movement. Usually this happens more on one side than on both sides but some people have this issue on both sides. The solution to the issue of being able to perform a ZST but not get movement is to add modalities. For example, in ~Certainty~ ZST one of the easiest modalities to add is to contract Pectineus in its long range isometrically.So, you would simply press your knee into the floor. You have to be in the right position ,you cannot be turned to the side like in ~Integrity~ ZST, nor can you be turned completely forward like in ~Stability~ ZST, you have to be in between to get optimal Pectineus contraction. So, you would contract the muscle into the floor and once you release a contraction you would go into Leverage and then Target. A beginner would do a contraction like that before either the single Leverage-Target or double Leverage-Target combination. And finally it's important to understand the restriction of the ligaments if you are getting progress and at some point you stop getting progress and now you feel like you are feeling restriction, and it feels completely different then you felt before, you might have stretched the muscle to the point where now it’s not just a muscle that’s restricting but now the ligament also restricting as well. Sometimes ligaments might become stiffened and restrict before the acceptable range, that does happen. Sometimes you might have went to the acceptable range with the ZST and now there is a restriction of theligaments and this does happen where there is continued progress and then it suddenly stops and the stretch begins to feel awkward and weird and there's some kind of pain that haven't been experienced before. Especially after doing a few rounds where the muscle is not releasing, it means that you got to the point of the ligaments. It does happen where there will be restriction on how much your hip can move from your ligaments. So it's important to understand that eventually this may happen that there will be restriction from the ligaments. However, it’s usually the advanced students that reach the restrictions of the ligaments for the joint mobility not so much the beginner students. EASY BACK BENDING CERTIFICATION COURSE The purpose of this course is to teach trainers, instructors, teachers and coaches a fast, safe, and proper Easy Back Bending training method of achieving and maintaining a Back Bend.Back bending a beautiful and useful demonstration of flexibility of the interior structures of musculoskeletal apparatus. A safe, healthy, and well done back bend balances a culmination of elasticity of multiple structures, hip flexors, adductors, quadriceps and core muscles. The purpose of this course is to teach exactly this, how to develop flexibility in every muscle that resists back bending. 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