Can you be fat and flexible?

Said another way: Is being lean and mean a requirement if you want to improve your mobility?

Many people would assume that it’s impossible be be flexible if you’re BIG, but I can assure you that I’ve seen thousands of thin people who are stiff as steel.

Years ago I was training a 295-pound man in the bridge, and during our first session, he not only put his nose to the mat in a back bridge, he followed that up by getting his chin down.

Wondering how far this guy could go, I asked him to move his feet toward the back of his noggin… and within seconds he was touching his heels to the back of his head.

Previously, I had only coached one person into this position, and he was a skinny 12 year old.

Both of these people had genetic advantages when it comes to flexibility. For whatever reason, they could go where few men and women have gone before, and with minimal training.

The rest of us need to put in more time to get loose – but not nearly as much time as you might think.

As I teach you in my Combat Stretching DVDs, it’s possible to double your flexibility far faster than you can imagine.

In one evening, you can go from tight as a drum, barely able to budge, to positions you never believed possible.

Will you be able to touch your heels to the back of your head in a bridge?

I doubt it.

But you can definitely gain several inches of grace in positions that were problematic.

The key, though, isn’t just gaining more pliability and mobility. A longer muscle that is weaker is not what you want.

You want to be longer AND stronger, not weaker and meeker.

You want to turn yourself into a more athletic, more functional human doing and human being.

You want to walk, run, jump and move about with SPRING in each step.

You want to feel connected internally, you want to feel as though your body can bounce off the ground from any position.

This feeling is not reserved for the thin, wiry, lean folks.

Having a super low body fat is NOT the key to being flexible.

Nor is being overweight a hindrance.

You can become flexible no matter what body type you have, so long as you are willing to put in the time and do the work.

And you don’t need to believe you can do it before you start.

That’s a misnomer.

Get started first.

Gain the flexibility you never thought possible, not because you believed you could, but because you were willing to practice.

Do the practice and you will be given the flexibility.

Here endeth the lesson.

Get Combat Stretching NOW.

Give yourself a sense of new life, new possibilities, new EVERYTHING.

Matt Furey