Flexibility is increased through careful stretching of the muscles. In addition to making normal activities possible and pain-free, flexible muscles relieve stress, promote good posture, reduce the risk of pain and injury, and allow ease of movement throughout life. The best well-known stretch is a static stretch that relives pain in the area being stretched.



Stretching is the best way to improve flexibility. This means pushing yourself and your organization to reasonable limits without injury. It also means experimenting with different approaches, expanding your thinking, and trying new things to see how they work. Stretching increases your range of motion, your ability to respond to change, and your mental flexibility.

Flexibility allows you to approach goals, challenges, and obstacles with more resources for achieving the goals and overcoming the challenges and obstacles. By identifying alternatives and creating options, you are more likely to find better solutions to problems and more successful strategies for achieving goals.

Once you've done some deep breathing for the lungs, now let's do some for the muscles. In fact, let's do something that is supposedly physiologically impossible. Let's breathe right into the muscle we're stretching. For example, if you're stretching your hamstrings, let's inhale into the hamstring. Just imagine doing so and you'll feel the difference.

Several PNF techniques have been modified and simplified to the point that they can be performed with an exercise partner or even alone. With PNF techniques, a 6-second contraction of the muscle to be stretched is followed by an assisted stretch of 10 to 30 second's duration. Ballistic stretching involves repeated bouncing motions, during which the muscle and tendon are rapidly stretched and returned to resting length. This process can be likened to taking a rubber band between two fingers, rapidly pulling it apart, md then releasing the tension, again and again.

Vary the types of stretches you do. Sit on the ground and extend your legs in front of you, keeping your legs straight. Try to grab your ankles and hold the position for at least 30 seconds. You can also spread your legs, reach forward and hold the position. Don't round your back or hunch forward. Keep your back as flat as possible for a deeper, more effective stretch.

Solating you golf swing muscles with flexibility exercises is an approach you cannot ignore. Stretching based on the biomechanics of your golf swing will give you the quickest results.

The golf swing has three main positions you should focus on. The back swing, impact and the follow through. These are the biomechanical components of your flexibility program.

The controlled stretching of muscles that act on a particular joint enhances flexibility. The primary strategy is to decrease the resistance to stretch (tension) within a tight muscle that you have targeted for increased range of motion. To do this, you repeatedly stretch the muscle and its two tendons of attachment to elongate them.