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

Chapter Examples

• Bodyboarding

  Bodyboarding, also known as Boogieboarding is a surface water sport in which the surfer rides a bodyboard on the crest, face or curl of a wave towards the shore using swim fins for additional propulsion and control while riding the wave.

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• Bowling Overarm - Cricket

  Overarm bowling commonly used in cricket is the action of propelling a ball toward a wicket defended by a batsman. Overarm bowling is different from throwing in that the bowler’s arm must not extend during the bowling action, only the rotation of the..

  
  

• Bowling Underarm - Ten-pin bowling, flat green bowling and crown green bowling

  Ten-pin bowling is a sport and popular leisure activity where players compete to knock down as many pins as possible standing at the end of a wooden or synthetic bowling lane with a large ball.

  Bowls or lawn bowls is a sport leisure activity where..

  
  

• Boxing and martial arts punching

  Boxing is a combat sport in which two people throw punches at each other with gloved hands. Boxing requires strength, speed, endurance and fast reflexes. Also included here under the heading Boxing are mixed martial arts punching and martial art punching..

  
  

• Catching a ball - Baseball, Cricket, Rounders, Softball

  Catching a ball in Baseball, Cricket, Rounders, Softball or any sport requires good hand-eye coordination. Catching a ball involves head extension, cervical flexion and extension, thoracic flexion, lumbar flexion and extension, scapula retraction, protraction,..

  
  

• Climbing

  Climbing is a physical activity requiring great strength and agility. It involves the use of one’s limbs to ascend any steep object, natural or manmade. It may be done competitively, recreationally, professionally or as part of an emergency rescue or..

  
  

• Cue sports - Pool, Snooker and Billiards

  Cue sports is a general term for pool, snooker and billiards – games where the players use a cue stick to strike billiard balls and move them around a cloth-covered table bounded by rubber cushions.

  Cue sports involves head extension, cervical extension..

  
  

• Cycling - Racing biking, Mountain biking and Recreational biking

  Cycling takes many forms, racing, mountain biking, utilitarian and recreational. Racing bicycles have dropped handlebars requiring the rider to bend forward which reduces air resistance and use stronger muscles such as the gluteus maximus to generate..

  
  

• Darts

  Darts is a throwing game in which small missiles or darts are thrown at a circular target or dartboard hanging on a wall. Darts is a traditional pub game that has evolved into a professional competitive sport.

  Darts involves head extension, cervical..

  
  

• Domestic work

  These stretches are for domestic work such as washing dishes, vacuuming, cleaning and general home duties. Domestic work is most demanding on the muscles of the shoulders, upper thoracic and lower lumbar spine. It places some demand on the hips, arms,..