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

• Driving a car or truck

  These stretches are for driving a vehicle and especially for prolonged periods of time. Driving a car is a form of sitting that also involves the coordination of the arms to steer and legs to accelerate or brake.

  Both arms and leg muscles are used..

  
  

• Fencing

  Fencing is a sport where two combatants fight with swords in an attempt to land a touch or make blade contact with a valid target area on the opponent’s body. There are two types of fencing classical fencing, which is a type of martial art and competitive..

  
  

• Golf

  Golf is a sport in which competing players use different types of clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course using the fewest number of strokes. Each golf course is unique and consists of a series of nine or eighteen holes. Each hole on includes..

  
  

• High jump

  The high jump is a track and field event where each competitor jumps over a horizontal bar placed at a defined height and without the aid of a prop.

  A jumper must take off on one foot and pass over the bar without dislodging it. If the bar is dislodged..

  
  

• Hockey

  Hockey, also known as field hockey is a sport where two teams attempt to manoeuvre a ball into the opponent’s goal using a hockey stick. Each team contains eleven players including the goalie. Goal keepers are the only players allowed to touch the ball..

  
  

• Horse riding

  Horse riding, also known as equestrianism or horseback riding may be done for practical reasons such as working or transportation, as a cultural exercise, or for recreation or competitive sport.
  Competitive equestrianism includes horse racing, dressage,..

  
  

• Ice Skating

  Ice skating is moving on ice with ice skates for exercise, leisure, travelling and as part of various sports including figure skating, speed skating and ice hockey. Ice skating may be done indoor, outdoor or on naturally occurring bodies of frozen water,..

  
  

• Juggling

  Juggling is the skill of using one or both hands to toss and catch one or several objects, while keeping them in constant motion. Juggling is a form of art, recreation, entertainment or sport and features in fairs, festivals, theatres, circuses and as..

  
  

• Kicking a ball - Soccer and Football

  Soccer also known as football or association football is a sport played between two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to put a spherical ball into the opposing goal using any part of the..

  
  

• Long jump

  The long jump is a track and field event where each competitor has to run down a runway and jump as far as possible across a pit filled with finely ground sand.

  The long jump consists of the run-up, the last two strides, takeoff, movement adjustments..