Safe Stretch Stretching is a powerful tool that has many benefits: it can help make movement easier, increase your physical fitness, counter the effects of ageing, improve your posture, reduce stress, ease muscle pain and fatigue and it can help prevent injury from over lifting at work and during sports and other types of exercise. If you are relatively inactive and lead a sedentary lifestyle then stretching helps compensate. Stretching is an important component to staying healthy and supple, it can be done anywhere, anytime and best of all it is free Safe Stretch

Batting – Baseball, Cricket, Rounders and Softball

Batting in Baseball, Cricket, Rounders, Softball requires good spine and shoulder flexibility as well as strength, and skill, and especially good eye, muscle, bat, ball coordination.

Batting primarily involves a combination of head extension, cervical flexion, extension, sidebending and rotation, thoracic and lumbar flexion, extension, sidebending and rotation, scapula retraction and protraction, shoulder flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, internal rotation and external rotation, elbow flexion, supination and pronation, wrist flexion and extension, finger flexion, hip extension and abduction, knee extension and ankle plantar flexion,. Some of these movements are for the left side of the body, some are for the right side and some are for both sides.

In addition to stretching the prime movers you will need to stretch their antagonists and the joint stabiliser and neutraliser muscles.

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