Whenever you think of health and fitness for your body, you probably imagine exercise. Eating normally and exercising properly are the best ways to stay healthy for life.
However, quite often people don’t realize that flexibility and exercise are two entirely different things. Not many people are aware that flexibility plays a major role in the overall health of your body.
If you have been preparing your mind that you intend to become completely healthy and fit, you should seriously think about adding flexibility as a major element in your regular exercise sessions.
Why it is so important to be flexible
When you don’t flex your body on a regular basis, routine tasks could end up causing injuries. You may start to feel back aches simply from sitting at your desk in front of your desktop or laptop for a few hours.
Climbing up on a tall ladder could result in you pulling a muscle in your thigh or groin. There are a number of different situations where you end up injuring yourself not due to doing anything wrong but due to the fact that your body doesn’t have enough flexibility.
Picture this scene: You’ve just returned from your weekly shopping trip. You are attempting to get your crying, screaming child out of his seats, and also grab as many shopping bags as you can to reduce the number of trips you have to take to your car.
However, innocuous this scene might appear it could result in some fairly serious strains if you don’t have a strong enough core and have inflexible joints.
So how do I know about this? Because it’s a situation I have been in myself many times in the past, with tight hip joints seriously affecting my quality of life.
Participating in sports is excellent for your flexibility
If you don’t have enough time to play sports but have a family, the best thing to do is play sports with your children. That’s an excellent way to bond as well as get fit.
However, you could end up with some strange injuries if all you do is play with your children, since you won’t have any flexibility in the muscles that you use for doing many of those things your children were doing.
You won’t even be able to dance with your kids since you need to have plenty of flexibility in your body in order to do that.
Dancing is another excellent exercise to improve your body’s overall health. Also consider doing stretches and flexibility exercises, which will help to relieve your lower back pain as well as help improve your body’s flexibility.
Think in a different way
Yoga in an excellent way of introducing flexibility into the fitness of your body. Just be sure to take it slow at first and learn the proper forms.
The main benefit that your body benefits from being flexibility is that is helps to prevent numerous injuries from taking place. It isn’t even necessary to do extreme forms of physical activities in order for injuries to happen.
Age and muscle determination
The main problem is your muscles will be losing their elasticity as you age.
However, it is still possible to have excellent muscle flexibility if you perform flexibility routines frequently.
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you needed to suddenly jump to catch something that was falling and you ended up pulling a muscle? That is due to the fact that your muscle has become smaller because of inactivity and it got injured when it was stretched past its limits.
The blood circulation within your body improves as well whenever you are performing stretching exercises regularly.
Numerous health problems arise from lying or sitting down in positions that aren’t comfortable for your body.
For instance, after a long trip on a train or plane you might feel stiff and cramped since the posture you had to sit was one your body wasn’t used to. However, if you stretch your body so that it is flexible, then just about any posture would be easier on your body.
It is possible to adjust within the small space into numerous different positions in order to shift the strain and stress from one side of your body over to the other side. Therefore, go ahead and begin to stretch in order to provide your body with much needed flexibility.