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Stretching

The Benefits
Regular stretching improves and maintains flexibility and mobility, corrects bad posture, reduces the risk of injury, relieves pain, and even helps counteract the effects of ageing. In addition, it relaxes the body, helps reduce stress levels, and can help to boost self-esteem. Everyone, regardless of age or fitness level, can benefit from stretching. By making it an integral part of your lifestyle, you will reap its many benefits.

Is it like Yoga?
Stretching is different from Yoga or Pilates. Stretching more simple. It aims to align the body, improve posture, and encourage better mechanical movement of the joints, which reduces wear and tear on them. Put simply, stretching helps the body to work harmoniously.

Stretching affects more than the 602 muscles of the body. When you stretch muscles, you also mobilize joints, elongate skin, and affect connective tissue, nerves, tendons, and sometimes ligaments.

Why we need to strecth?
Our bodies suffer daily fatigue from fighting against the constant downward pull of gravity. At the same time, aging has a dehydrating effect, and as we grow older, our bodily tissues become leathery. After years of being right- or left-handed and performing regular activities such as sitting and driving, we start to stiffen into the positions we have assumed through the years. The effect is to leave you sagging, hunched over, and too tired to carry on. However, this doesn’t have to be a death sentence. You can counteract the effects of gravity and aging on the body and achieve your ideal posture with a stretching program that balances muscular irregularities.

source: stretching, by: suzanne martin
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