What’s the right ratio of stretching to exercise? How much, how often, and why is it so easy to forget about it entirely?
That question came to me the hard way—through a massage. A very good one, actually. I treated myself to a foot massage yesterday, and the masseuse worked her way up my legs until she found a few knots that made her stop and say, “Wow, that’s really tight.” I laughed, because I knew it was true. But then she added, “You really need to stretch more and drink more water,” and I thought, Wait, I do stretch… don’t I?
That’s when the uncomfortable realization hit: I couldn’t actually remember the last time I stretched intentionally.
So here's what I'm going to do about it.
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