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

Throwing a ball

Throwing is used in many sports to propel an object over distance. The object is usually a ball but may be a knife, axe, or javelin. The type of object, its shape and size will influence how the object is thrown. These are the stretches for throwing a small ball with one hand from a stationary position.

Overarm throwing involves the scapula, arm, forearm and hand to impart velocity to the ball. Whereas in bowling (cricket) the elbow is extended in throwing the elbow is allowed to flex. Throwing is a more natural action than bowling.

Throwing requires skill and good upper limb flexibility. The throw involves scapula retraction then protraction, shoulder flexion, abduction and ….

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