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