Day 1: Your hips open up first, often within minutes
You anchor the stick against the floor or a wall and lean your bodyweight into it. The leverage carries that pressure into the deep layers your own body can't reach.
And because it's slow and steady, your body doesn't fight it. Force makes muscles brace harder. Held pressure gives them permission to stand down.
The hips open first, usually within two or three minutes. The deep grip around the joint lets go, and the range that grip was blocking comes back. And it holds, which is the part regular stretching never managed.
