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

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 in the air, and landing. A foul line is marked on a wooden board at the start of the jump point and the long jumper cannot jump from any point past this line or the jump is declared a foul. Each competitor has a set number of attempts.

Successful long jumping depends on the high speed of the run-up, the correct angle of take off, effective body streamlining during the jump and effective landing. The main muscles used in the long jump are ….