Surfing! Father-daughter dawn patrol. She picked right back up where she left off a month ago.
The "problem" is that much of stretching can be boring and thus it's difficult to do 3-4 times/week. I've learned to do it as soon as I stumble downstairs in the morning to make my first cup of tea.
You'll have to let us know how you like it. I've been eyeballing a HR monitor for five years to see if it's worth recording data for doctor's physicals.I am getting a Polar heart rate monitor, to be delivered tomorrow, and hopefully that should provide some information on calories used, target heart rate, and so on.
Some flexibility is genetic, but most of it is learned. I've learned a lot from Thomas Kurz' "Stretching Scientifically". It teaches the biomechanics of the stretches so that you can make sure you're not damaging joints or ligaments. It's also tremendously improved my flexibility to that of a teenager... or at least the teens of our dojang.He got into the danggest positions I ever saw and was really pushing it.
I was impressed (and jealous).
The "problem" is that much of stretching can be boring and thus it's difficult to do 3-4 times/week. I've learned to do it as soon as I stumble downstairs in the morning to make my first cup of tea.