Flexibility Articles

E xe r c i s e By Amy Ashmore, PhD Three principles for applying force Safe and Effective Stretching For years, stretching has been viewed as a necessary part of personal training, yet stretching itself has received little attention. Recent research on how forces act on the body gives us a new way to think about stretching and provides methods that make it safer and more effective for clients. W...

movement By Paula Anderson, MS The Active Range Warm-Up: Getting Hotter With Time I n the early days of group fitness when everyone wore leg warmers and exercised to Jane Fonda tapes, the warm-up portion of a typical cardio conditioning class included moves borrowed from ballet, jazz dance and yoga. Unending head turns, pli...