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Stretching for a more youthful look

Lately, stretching has been on my mind. The more I think about the benefits of stretching, the more I’m convinced that we all need to introduce regular stretching into our lifestyles, not just into our formal exercise routines.

Lifestyle stretching means you stretch to feel good – when you wake up in the morning just before you get out of bed, after a tense phone call when you realize you’ve been so involved that your whole body has become tight, or when you’ve been sitting at a keyboard for more than 30 minutes and your body is starting to seize into position.

The problem with this informal stretching is that it will make you feel great, but it won’t do much to regain the ability to move that you’ve been gradually losing since you reached puberty all those years ago.

Your body is a bit like a rubber band that slowly loses its elasticity as it gets older. Unless you do some stretching for flexibility, you’ll gradually lose your elasticity, degenerate, and eventually start breaking.

You can restore some of that lost flexibility by correctly stretching the muscles of your body. If you stretch correctly you will start to replace some of that tough old fibrin and collagen connective tissue with new elastin connective tissue.

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