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She began making YouTube videos in 2016 when she was 14 [4] after gaining a small following on Instagram. At the time, Instagram only allowed 15-second videos and McNulty needed more time to share flexibility tips. [5] [7] Her YouTube content focuses on flexibility and stretching. [4]
This large angle significantly stretches, and thus demonstrates excellent flexibility of, the hamstring and iliopsoas muscles. Consequently, splits are often used as a stretching exercise to warm up and enhance the flexibility of leg muscles. A split that goes beyond 180° is called an oversplit.
An image of a bridge position with straight legs. The body is pushed over the shoulders to enable straight vertical arms, stretching the shoulders and upper body. The bridge (also called gymnastic bridge [1]) is an exercise. Many variations of this exercise are employed throughout the world, most commonly the balancing of the body on the hands ...
Amanda Françozo using wall bars. Gymnasts at the Royal Gymnastics Central Institute of Stockholm, 1900. Yugoslav boys using wall bars, 1957. Gymnastic wall bars (also known as a gymnastic ladder, Swedish ladder, Swedish wall or as stall bars) were invented at the beginning of the 19th century by the Swedish teacher Per Henrik Ling who, when suffering from arthritis, realized the therapeutic ...
A self-described army brat born in Edmonton to Lt.-Col. Laurence Esmonde-White, she moved with her family to Calgary, and eventually to Montreal. [1] Her mother, Anstace Esmonde-White, and father Larry were the hosts of From A Country Garden, [4] a public television series produced by WPBS-TV that ran on PBS for seventeen years beginning in 1986. [5]
A girl bending over on a dock, showing her yoga pants. Yoga originated in India as a spiritual practice. [3] In India in the early 20th century, the postures of medieval haṭha yoga were combined with movements from gymnastics, creating a new tradition of postural yoga. [4]
Gymnastics is one of the most dangerous sports, with a very high injury rate seen in girls age 11 to 18. [52] Some gymnastic movements which were allowed in past competitions are now banned for safety reasons; for example, the Thomas salto, a twisting salto landed with a forward roll on the floor, was banned after several injuries.
Stretching can be dangerous when performed incorrectly. There are many techniques for stretching in general, but depending on which muscle group is being stretched, some techniques may be ineffective or detrimental, even to the point of causing hypermobility, instability, or permanent damage to the tendons, ligaments, and muscle fiber. [7]