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Date Posted: 14:12:59 01/08/14 Wed
Author: Knut Holt
Author Host/IP: 157-243-15.connect.netcom.no / 46.15.243.157
Subject: STRETCHING EXERCISES to make you flexible

SOME TIPS FOR THE SLOW STRETCHING EXERCISES

- Stand as straight as possible. First swing your straight arms forward up over your head and behind your head if possible. Hold the stretch. Then swing your arms down before you until they point straight forward, and the swing them backward straight out to each side. Again try to get as long back with your arms as possible and hold the stretch. Then relax letting your arms hang down again.

You can make this exercise more effective by standing in a door opening, and pushing towards the rims of the door opening with your arms or your elbows.

- Stand straight and hold your hands folded upon your head while trying to have your elbows as long back as possible. Then bend your torso and neck down to the right and hold the stretch. Then bend the opposite way down to the left and hold the stretch before straightening up again.

- Stand straight. Then bend your body forward while pointing your fingers towards tour toes. Try to reach as long as possible downward with your hands so that you feel it stretches well at the backside of your legs. Hold the position some time while keeping an effective stretch , then rise slowly up again.

- Sit on the floor upon a carpet and support yourself with your arms behind you. Flex your legs up and your knees towards you. Then swing down your feet to each side. Move your hands forward and grip around your feet and then push down upon your legs with your elbows so that you feel it stretches at the inner sides of your thighs. Hold the position some time while keeping the stretch.

- Stand with split legs, with a stool before you. Bend down a little and set your hands upon the stool. Then separate gradually your legs further from each other as far as it goes so it stretches between your legs, while supporting your body with your hands at the stool. This may be somewhat difficult, but it will work by twisting movements of your feet. Then bend slowly forward so that your torso approaches a perpendicular position. Stretch well in that position. Then slowly rise and slowly take your legs together again.

This exercise is a little difficult and a little risky, so use some caution when doing it.

- The best way to stretch your legs out to each side is however to lay on your back on the floor and let a friend split your legs apart so that it stretches, and then let your friend rise your legs so that they point up and stretch them to the sides before moving them together again and laying them down.

- Sit on a chair or on a carpet on the floor. Flex your torso and neck in a bow backward so that your belly protrudes forward. To make the stretch more effective you can hold your hands around your knees and pull with your arms. Hold the stretch some time.

Then flex your torso and neck the other way forward. Try to get your head as near your lap as possible. Hold the stretch some while before straightening your torso up again. This time you can make the stretch more effective by folding your hands behind your neck and pulling downward.

- Sit straight on a chair. Twist your torso and neck to the right as far as possible. Hold the stretch. Then twist the other way and hold the stretch. You can make the stretch more effective by holding your hands around the knee at the same side and pushing.

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