5) Who
is Flextasy™ for?
The Flextasy™ Flexibility and Stretching
videos are for anyone who has a skeleton, in other words,
for everyone.
It is for the young and the old, the flexible
and the not so flexible. Everyone begins where they are and
progresses at their own pace. It is not a contest, and special
athletic skills or great strength are not needed to begin
or to benefit from Flextasy™.
If you are one of the unfortunate many who
have let your body become uncomfortable, inflexible and in
general out of shape, then take heart, for Flextasy™
is an easy, non-threatening practice which will, from your
first session, begin to awaken your body in a pleasurable
manner. By practicing each movement slowly and deliberately,
at your own pace and to your own limit (the first edge of
resistance), gradually all the Flextasy™ movements can
be performed easily and smoothly. As this happens you will
rejoice in your new body and with an increased vitality as
a result of breaking up blocks in the body's energetic system,
you will find yourself participating in life with a more positive
attitude, perhaps getting from life instead of only getting
through it!
If you are already active and flexible then
Flextasy™ is perfect for you, too. Usually people who
are active and who work out often, have lost an incredible
amount of flexibility and range of motion in their joints
and hinges by the shortening that inevitably takes place during
strenuous activities. I rarely meet anyone, active or not,
who can easily perform the Flextasy™ series of movements.
In fact, people who are active are more likely to be the most
inflexible. I have met world class runners and cyclists who
I would have graded a pitiful 2 out of 10 as they tried to
do the movements during the class. Think how much better any
athlete would be able to perform if their body worked the
way it was meant to before it became distorted through one-sided
exercise and a flexibility program found lacking. They would
have access to all three of the most valuable assets defining
physical health: strength(#2), endurance(#3) and flexibility(#1).
It is sad and unfortunate to experience,
or witness, the gaining of strength equaling the loss of flexibility,
though this is the norm. Has this happened to you? If you
are over 30 you have this to look forward to, if it hasn’t
happened already.
By adding Flextasy™ to your daily workout
you will be insuring that not only will you continue to be
strong, flexible, and active as time marches on, you will
be effectively lessening your chances of injury or illness.
The movements may be modified to accommodate
severe inflexibility and the number of repetitions may be
lessened to accommodate those with low stamina or increased
for those who wish to tone and strengthen. This in no way
lessens their ability to effectively loosen the body by changing
the very fabric of the soft tissue, increasing mobility, and
most importantly, bringing awareness and space to the joints
and hinges, thereby starting the process of waking up and
setting free the skeleton.
The movements you make, or fail to make throughout
your daily activities determine the form and function of your
body. You have built your present body by your chronic and
habitual movement patterns and you can reshape and modify
your body easier than you may think, simply by changing the
ways in which you move. Change the ways you move and you will change your body.
No one wants to grow more stiff and feeble
as time passes. Yet this is the program for all but a small
minority. For most, like a rusty hinge that gets more and
more encrusted and solid, their skeletons lose range of motion
and their soft tissue becomes more contracted, dense and painful,
day by day. Everyday you are getting stiffer or more flexible
and there is very little middle ground. You get stiffer by
sitting around, you get tighter by practicing one-sided exercise
(exercise consisting of repetitive shortening movements),
and you get more flexible by practicing range of motion exercises.
It’s really a quite simple equation to figure out.
If you want to be able to make certain movements
next week, or next year, then you must practice those movements
consistently in the meantime. During the Flextasy™ routine
your skeleton is run through a wide variety of perfectly reasonable
ranges of motion which most people rarely, if ever, perform.
In doing so, you are creating space in your
joints and very nicely massaging and decompressing all of
your soft tissue. You are shaping and sculpting yourself a
new body. Whether you are a triathlete or a couch potato,
if you have noticed over time that you are not as flexible
as you used to be, or simply would like to be more flexible,
then I wholeheartedly recommend giving this system a try.
You have nothing to lose but your pain and frustration!
For the young it is a practice to begin now
while it is easier, and to use it throughout your life as
a great secret treasure, a Fountain of Youth. For the young
and the mature, it is one of the three keys which unlocks
the door to health and happiness- these keys being: diet,
attitude, and last but not least, Flexibility.
If you want your body to move more like a
well-oiled machine and less like a door with rusty hinges
then Flextasy™ is for you!
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