#stretching

Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility. ↗

— Samantha Stosur

#chances #crucial #decreases #doing #dynamic

My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system; strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density; core strength exercise for a stable mid-section; and stretching to maintain mobility. ↗

— Samantha Stosur

#bone #cardiovascular #core #density #exercise

OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#forebears #forever #get #i #judaism

Nobody criticised me when we qualified for the World Cup when I decided that the best shape for us going forward was three men at the back and stretching the pitch width-wise, which gives you options. ↗

— Glenn Hoddle

#best #criticised #cup #decided #forward

I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching. ↗

— Edwin Moses

#i #injury #never #particular #preparation

I've never enjoyed my running more. I also do 200 sit-ups a day, 60 push-ups, and a lot of stretching. I've had some back issues. I think the stretching helps with that. ↗

— Alberto Salazar

#back #day #enjoyed #had #helps

The stretching of your faith is immediate pain that results in ultimate gain. It is in the waiting that we become who we are meant to be. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#becoming-you-you-re-meant-to-be #bigger-picture #consecration #destiny #faith

Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#japanese #murakami #stretching #music

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#exercises #horn #i #i do #little

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#characters #cutting #feet #fit #i