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

• Partner Dancing - Waltz, Foxtrot, Quickstep, Tango

  Partner dancing involves the coordinated dancing of two people who maintain some degree of connection with each other. One partner, usually the man, is the leader, and the other, usually the woman, is the follower. Types of partner dancing included in..

  
  

• Polo

  Polo is a team sport played on horseback on a large grass field. Each team consists of four riders and their horses. Players score goals by hitting a small white wooden or plastic ball into the opposing team’s goal using a long-handled mallet.

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• Rowing, canoeing and kayaking

  In rowing a boat is propelled by the force of an oar blade, as it is pushed against the water.
  Rowing may be competitive or recreational. It may be done as an individual activity or as a team sport which can vary from two to eight persons. Propulsion..

  
  

• Skateboarding

  Skateboarding is an activity which involves riding and performing tricks on a skateboard. It requires balance, coordination, flexibility, strength and power. It puts demand on ligaments and muscles but from only one direction. Skateboarding can be ambidextrous…

  
  

• Skydiving

  Skydiving or parachuting is the sport of jumping out of an aircraft, free-falling for a period of time and then using a parachute to slow down and return to Earth. During the free-fall phase the body accelerates to terminal velocity. When the parachute..

  
  

• Solo Freeform Dancing - Pop, Disco, Techno dancing

  Dancing such as Solo Freeform Dancing and dancing to Pop, Disco, Techno music requires good spine and limb flexibility. The demand of the dance on the body is determined by the type of dance, the intensity of the dance and the available dance floor space..

  
  

• Stretches for heavy manual labour

  These stretches are for heavy work such as digging, lifting, wheel barrowing and general labouring. They can be done before and after heavy work. Heavy manual labour is most demanding on the muscles of the middle and lower back, shoulders and hips, and..

  
  

• Stretches for riding a motorcycle

  Riding a motorcycle involves sitting with the hips abducted, thighs and knees apart and with both feet on foot rests, using the arms to steer, fingers of the left hand to operate the clutch, fingers of the right hand to operate the front brake, left foot..

  
  

• Stretches for sedentary work sitting at a desk in a chair

  These stretches are for sedentary activities involving prolonged periods of sitting in an office chair using a computer at home or in an office environment.

  Sitting at a desk and typing on a keyboard mainly involves the contraction of the muscles..

  
  

• Tennis

  Tennis is a racquet sport between two or four people. The racquet is strung with cord to hit a ball over a net and into the opponent’s court and land in such a way that the opponent is unable to play a good return ball. Tennis balls are made of hollow..