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Stretching For Life (3rd Edition), By Dr. Ben Griffes

Stretching for Life (3rd Edition)          

“The easiest book on stretching you will ever use”

Muscles are meant to move, but if you’re a stand-around, sit-around busy person who never really moves that much, then your muscles and joints are going to shrivel up and die (no, not really) but they’re going to get stiff and sore. 

Repetitive immobility, experienced on a daily basis, leads to chronic, postural overload and adaptive shortening of your muscles and connective tissue.  This shortening of the myofascia exhibits itself as stiff joints, decreased flexibility, loss of fluidity, muscle pain and poor posture.  Fascia acts as a lubricant to permit freedom of movement of each adjacent muscle group and you’re tightening it up. When you continually stress and tighten a muscle group, the fascia and fibers will adhere together, restricting your range of motion and creating postural imbalances.  STRETCHING daily is going to help you correct your musculoskeletal restrictions and reduce chronic rigidity.

The stretches in this book are easy to do, do not require a lot of time nor require the use of any equipment.  All your muscles are included; there are stretches for warming up and stretches to finish your day, stretches to relieve pain, stiffness, and tightness, stretches to help improve your mobility and flexibility and to help prevent injuries.  The hardest thing about you stretching is going to be to do it every day.

 

As an added bonus I’ve included Core Strengthening Exercises and a section for pregnant women to help them relieve their discomfort during pregnancy.

Please remember that stretching is not a chore but rather a mini vacation for your muscles to relax and release any built-up tension or restriction.  People of all ages and in all occupations and at all fitness levels have benefited from having a daily stretching program.  Unhook your seatbelt. You are now free to move about the world.

 




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