Recent content by supple1au

If you stretch twice a day every day, you're going to make those muscles pretty damm sore! Stretching, (like weight training) requires rest to allow adaption. To improve your flexibility within your time frame, you should stretch your calves, hamstrings (using both straight-leg AND bent-leg...

34!! I started at 49, now 56, fit, flexible AND strong. My favourite saying: "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." www.pandf.com.au

It will take heaps longer if you keep training. Stretching and icing will not heal it if you don't.... REST

Stress fractures in shins...OUCH Your solution lies in your sign-off quote: "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got..." Need I say any more, except back off, get someone to check your "form". If your heels are lifting off the floor at the bottom of the...

"Run on your toes, dont run around like a gay twinkle berry man, but try too absorb inpact near the front of your feet" -Why would anyone want to run on their toes? This will only worsen the imbalances already created in the leg musculature! "Stretch out: IF you dont stretch spend a few...

Abs revisited 800 crunches in less than 12 minutes! That is less than a second per crunch man! No matter how young / old you are that is way too quick to give the abdominals a proper workout. I can visualise it now............. Momentum! + Speed! = minimal contraction of the targeted muscles...

Excuse my ignorance from down here mateys, but I am under the impression that one SHOULD ALWAYS perform their resistance training using the full ROM. This way ALL the muscle fibres are recruited and stressed, meaning bigger, longer and stronger muscles. After all, a strong elongated muscle will...