| Flexibility is extremely important when you | | | | Several PNF techniques have been modified and |
| are young as well as when you are older. | | | | simplified to the point that they can be |
| Flexibility can help you with sports, work, | | | | performed with an exercise partner or even |
| and help you have healthier mobility when you | | | | alone. With PNF techniques, a 6-second |
| age. Here are some great tips to help keep | | | | contraction of the muscle to be stretched is |
| you flexible throughout your entire life. | | | | followed by an assisted stretch of 10 to 30 |
| | | | second's duration. Ballistic stretching |
| Flexibility is increased through careful | | | | involves repeated bouncing motions, during |
| stretching of the muscles. In addition to | | | | which the muscle and tendon are rapidly |
| making normal activities possible and | | | | stretched and returned to resting length. |
| pain-free, flexible muscles relieve stress, | | | | This process can be likened to taking a |
| promote good posture, reduce the risk of pain | | | | rubber band between two fingers, rapidly |
| and injury, and allow ease of movement | | | | pulling it apart, md then releasing the |
| throughout life. The best well-known stretch | | | | tension, again and again. |
| is a static stretch that relives pain in the | | | | |
| area being stretched. | | | | Vary the types of stretches you do. Sit on |
| | | | the ground and extend your legs in front of |
| Stretching is the best way to improve | | | | you, keeping your legs straight. Try to grab |
| flexibility. This means pushing yourself and | | | | your ankles and hold the position for at |
| your organization to reasonable limits | | | | least 30 seconds. You can also spread your |
| without injury. It also means experimenting | | | | legs, reach forward and hold the position. |
| with different approaches, expanding your | | | | Don't round your back or hunch forward. Keep |
| thinking, and trying new things to see how | | | | your back as flat as possible for a deeper, |
| they work. Stretching increases your range of | | | | more effective stretch. |
| motion, your ability to respond to change, | | | | |
| and your mental flexibility. | | | | Solating you golf swing muscles with |
| | | | flexibility exercises is an approach you |
| Flexibility allows you to approach goals, | | | | cannot ignore. Stretching based on the |
| challenges, and obstacles with more resources | | | | biomechanics of your golf swing will give you |
| for achieving the goals and overcoming the | | | | the quickest results. |
| challenges and obstacles. By identifying | | | | |
| alternatives and creating options, you are | | | | The golf swing has three main positions you |
| more likely to find better solutions to | | | | should focus on. The back swing, impact and |
| problems and more successful strategies for | | | | the follow through. These are the |
| achieving goals. | | | | biomechanical components of your flexibility |
| | | | program. |
| Once you've done some deep breathing for the | | | | |
| lungs, now let's do some for the muscles. In | | | | The controlled stretching of muscles that act |
| fact, let's do something that is supposedly | | | | on a particular joint enhances flexibility. |
| physiologically impossible. Let's breathe | | | | The primary strategy is to decrease the |
| right into the muscle we're stretching. For | | | | resistance to stretch (tension) within a |
| example, if you're stretching your | | | | tight muscle that you have targeted for |
| hamstrings, let's inhale into the hamstring. | | | | increased range of motion. To do this, you |
| Just imagine doing so and you'll feel the | | | | repeatedly stretch the muscle and its two |
| difference. | | | | tendons of attachment to elongate them. |
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