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...

The good news about your training programme is that it really need not be a lengthy affair that requires large chunks of your day and great patience to remain in the gym for extended periods.

Generally speaking, a more important factor in your training than the overall duration is the intensity at which you train.  Pushing harder and raising the intensity means you can get the job done in a relatively short period of time.

This approach works for a variety of programme designs covering pretty m...

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