Tweet When I was younger and felt trapped in a stiff, tight body, I’d spend hours sitting in front of the television, yanking on my muscles and trying to manually pull them longer. I admired the grace of gymnasts and dancers. It looked so pleasurable to have those long, lean muscles, to be able to [...]
Tweet Q. Hello Sukie, Thank you for your efforts in trying to make us more flexible and relieve us from our backaches. For my part, I’ve been suffering from lower back pain in the night and immediately prior to leaving the bed in the morning. The pain would disappear after a few minutes once I [...]
Tweet Are you stuck at a desk job, sitting all day long? That’s probably THE biggest complaint I hear on a daily basis. You go to work and sit for eight hours, getting up just long enough to fetch lunch (if you’re lucky) and then right back to sitting again. And at the end of [...]
Tweet I’m lucky. Despite all the stiffness I had my whole life in my legs and hips, I’ve always been fairly flexible in the shoulders and upper back. But a lot of people aren’t so fortunate. Men, in particular, tend to have tight, stiff shoulders because they genetically have more muscle mass in their upper [...]
Tweet Do you ever wake up and just feel like you slept wrong? Like your neck was in some crazy unnatural position all night, or maybe the cat was dancing on your head? And then you’re super careful all day, making no sudden movements lest you tweak a muscle and make your whole neck spasm. [...]
Tweet I used to struggled a lot with my weight. I knew I had some pounds to lose, so I was always putting myself on these restrictive eating programs, vowing that no carbs shall pass my lips and so and and so forth. I’d start losing some weight, but dieting really put a damper on [...]
Tweet The other kids used to laugh at me in high school P.E. When you’re a kid, you’re supposed to be flexible, but I never was. While everyone else was easily putting their foreheads on their knees, I couldn’t even touch my toes. And when I started rowing on the crew team in college, my [...]
