The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
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Static stretching is what most people think of as stretching--go into a stretch and hold it for
10 seconds or more. It turns out that this de facto approach can temporarily decrease the
strength of the muscles and connective tissue being stretched, increasing the likelihood of injury.
In this unusual exception, we wanted to temporarily elongate and weaken one area and one
area only: the hip flexors.
The hip exor stretches are performed 30 seconds to two minutes before a jump, and the
nondominant side is stretched rst. In my case, that was my left side. Each side is held for 30
seconds.
On the right: Hold this position.
4TH ATTEMPT: 25 INCHES
I was pleased with our progress, and so was DeFranco: "That'd be a million dollars if you could
play football and were in the NFL.
"Mid to low 20s is the average for high school players in this gym. Going from 29 inches to
30 inches in the Combine puts you in a new bracket altogether. A new tax bracket too."