boost flexibility...

Flexibility is your range of movement at a joint. If your muscles are too tight, you can't move as freely as nature intended. To boost flexibility, you need to stretch. There are many benefits of having flexible muscles:

• You reduce your chances of pulling a muscle
• The risk of back pain is reduced
• Your posture improves
• You become more functionally fit to perform everyday tasks

I recommend that you stretch at the end of every workout- it only takes five to ten minutes - to bring your muscles back to their correct resting length, and to increase the flexibility of any particularly tight muscles you have. I will show you a variety of stretching methods, and how to do them most effectively - and safely. Stretching should never be painful.

I will analyse your flexibility, particularly around the shoulder joints, the trunk, hips, knees, and ankles. Poor flexibility is quite common particularly in the hamstrings and calf muscles.

Beware- it is possible to be too flexible! You should never become so flexible at a joint that the joint loses stability and the muscle loses strength. I will advise you on the right degree of flexibility, and encourage you not to neglect this aspect of fitness.

For online training, see www.Fitness4London.com