This feature follows the previous article on the importance of flexibility, which highlighted the necessity of maintaining the body’s range of motion, optimal alignment and length tension relationships through stretching.  However, due to the vigour’s of life, be it intense sport or exercise, impact, prolonged and repeated poor posture or faulty movement patterns, our muscles often develop knots and adhesions within the fibers.  Once this has happened the fibers ability to extend and slid...

Flexibility is probably the most overlooked and under rated component of fitness.  Without the appropriate levels of flexibility we compromise our movement, making it less efficient and miss out on training vital ranges of motion in our bodies.  Restricted flexibility opens us up to compensatory movement patterns and increased risk of injury.  If we do not train the body to work through full ranges of movement, what happens when life dictates we go there? Reduced performance and injury.

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