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

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 to a lesser extent, on the muscles of the arms, forearms and knees and legs.

Heavy manual labour involves head, cervical and thoracic flexion and extension, lumbar flexion, extension, sidebending and rotation, sacroiliac flexion and extension, scapula retraction and protraction, shoulder flexion and extension

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