The problem here is that we really stop to stretch as it does us no good.

That's what Anat Baniel, fitness expert and author of a career: The Nine Essentials for Lifelong Vitality, Harmony Books (www.anatbanielmethod.com), has to say about it. She firmly believes that the activity of the strain against going to affect the health and longevity of our muscles.

"The muscles are not intended to be stretched," she said. "Let the muscles to contract and relax. Stretching it puts pressure on them and tore muscle fibers, forcing them to constantly after each time you remove stretch. Your body movement should not lead to repeated damage. It should be more harmony and naturally. “

Anat Baniel believes in the habit of touching our toes, but she has a way to do that flexibility and movement without damage in any way your muscles helps increase may occur.

Anat is known that for most of us try our toes while standing not touch that shows exactly how far out of reach. For this reason, it has developed a new method that only a little variation, but makes a noticeable difference. Try to go with them.

1. First, you must cast your feet while standing comfortably. Lean gently and let your hands drift to his feet. Note how far you can go back to an upright position.

2. Stand back and spread her legs comfortably. With knees bent with your right hand slightly with his right knee in the thigh. Do the same with your left hand on his left knee. Sit down the weight of the upper body off the ground on your hands. Round the back and looked at her belly, gently pull the bow on the back and press the belly outward, at the same time as lifting her head and looked up. Repeat this routine 4 or 5 times.

3. Return to upright leaning forward whiles his hands down toward the feet. Can you feel any change yet?

4. Spread Stand with your feet and knees slightly bent, and now you're sitting with his hands behind his back left leg just above the knee. In a gentle and slow movement around your back while looking at the bow down while giving them freedom and your abdominal muscles, they express the same time that research up. To do this, 4 or 5 times called. Rest for a moment and feel how you are.

5. Stand with knees slightly bent and spread forward and both hands on his right knee this time. Do the same thing as before and in a gentle movement slowly around the back, while the decline. Then arch your back health articles on fitness, so you push your abs out of power, freedom, and looking up.

6. Stand straight with legs apart, bend comfortably and quickly. Is this easier than it was before?

Follow the recommendation Anat Baniel now see if your toes are closer to the hands.

This should be the case that changes that provides the above tasks, your brain with what it needs to know how to relax tense muscles and tendons. This allows you to accomplish much more than you have ever pulled apart.