u/Ok_Jaguar_9715

Hi all,

First time posting here. I’m a calisthenics beginner (30 F) and have been doing 2 pull, 1 push and 1-2 mobility days a week. I just wanted to check if what I’m doing is correct. My goal is to gain strength and start with beginner poses to work my way up to a handstand.
So I’m 52 kg and have been inconsistent with my workouts in the past 4-5 years but haven’t been completely sedentary. For some reason, my body is as inflexible as a steel rod so I’m trying to work on that but currently just getting overwhelmed with the amount of information we have in books, YouTube videos etc.
my pull days consist of dynamic easy stretches and warm up followed by banded pull ups, scapular pull ups, lat pull downs, tuck knee raises, lying leg raises, Bulgarian split squats and RDLs. Followed by some isometric stretches (3-5 sec contract, 10 sec relax - for about 40 seconds each muscle group). It’s a new routine but I feel proper sore the next day with much reduced ROM.
My worry, whether the DOMS will make me more inflexible in the long term? I know RDLs make me sore even without stretches so should that be enough for hamstring flexibility or doing isometrics on top of that is okay? Am I doing too much? I’m afraid I might be doing something more counterproductive. The DOMS last for 2 days at least in my hamstrings.
Thanks, any advice appreciated!

Hi all,
Just posting here for advice. I’m currently on OOPC from a training programme since Feb this year. As my ARCP is approaching, I understand I’ll have to declare that on my TOOT. My question is should I put the total number of days of my TOOT from the date my OOPC started to now? Or till the last day of my TOOT which is in December?
It says its ’absence during a training programme since your last ARCP’ but should I be adding my future absence here as well? I added that on my portfolio but just thinking now if I change it on form R I’ll have to change it on my portfolio as well?
Sorry just confused as I do want to tell the ARCP Panel about my start and end date of OOPC which I have added on my TOOT in portfolio. Form R however only has ‘number of days’ with no start of finish date so wondering if I should be doing there.
Any advice would be appreciated.

Continuing from my last post: https://www.reddit.com/r/yoga/s/bsMVOC8xfs

I had an MRI done that showed ‘minor’ L5-S1 disc bulge. My pain gradually improved and even the pins and needles went away. Then I got a sports massage done after which i started feeling some tingling only around my right foot around the little toe area. Went to physio who said it’s likely Quadratus lumborum that’s making everything stiff. He gave me exercises to do including McGill 3 that I was already doing along with light flexion exercises. He said we need to build up on that. He also said I can bend down to pick up stuff from the ground as long as that’s not painful and his words ‘we weren’t designed to always keep our spine neutral’ anyway. The pain is now mostly gone and I’m able to move okay HOWEVER today I have tingling in both legs, initially laterally but now everywhere below the knee. Constantly. Idk what’s better, the pain being gone?
Anyone else had anything similar? My physio said I can continue with my calisthenics as long as it’s not painful. He didn’t say anything about the tingling 😭

The other day this restaurant played the song Truly Madly Deeply to which my husband and I both started humming. I said I remembered this song in a female voice by a very famous singer (couldn’t remember the name) and he was like no, it was Savage Garden. He was obviously right when I looked it up but I could SWEAR this was a song sung by a very famous female singer. Maybe just in my reality. Idk.