Enhancing Flexibility
Does anybody know a chemical or concoction that would increase muscular and tendon flexibility or elasticity? If people can send me in the right direction I'm willing to do a bit of leg work. I don't have access to medical papers or scientific review studies otherwise I would have started there.
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I'll also look into this myself. I think it's a good idea although nothing immediately springs to mind.
I'm quite serious
The simple things that don't take much of your time (I'm sure you're already doing): always stay very hydrated, eat a banana (potassium), and any time you're sitting in a chair, do some type of static stretch.
The real deal is that we weren't meant to be elastigirl or the one dud from Fantastic4 -- there's only so flexible we'll be able to get before actually hurting ourselves.
If you're not at the contortion stage yet, check out Thomas Kurz's "Stretching scientifically". There's a pdf floating out there somewhere ...
As for getting to the level of Mr. Fantastic, I know that's impossible (however much I wish it were), I'm aiming at contortionist levels. Which are theoretically possible. I just thought that there might be something like "Gingold Soda" as a possibility in reality, which for MOST people who drank it in the DCU helped them be contortionists.
I'm sorry about my minced words before, I am not the most eloquent with writing. Thank you again for the starting point to go down, rabbit holes hopefully await. Maybe I'll actually get somewhere. Fingers crossed.
As for Ballet, thank you for the suggestion @garethnelsonuk but previous attempts at the sport have turned me off of it altogether. I am working at gymnastics now, so hopefully close enough?