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Dave Hedges
- Mar 11, 2013
- 3 min
Stretching, When and How to Implement It
This wasn’t on purpose, maybe my own tightness’ were annoying me so I was attuned to articles popping up about stretching. I know I’ve had a few of my guys in the gym that I’ve been giving specific stretching advice to over the last week. Especially when it comes to internal rotation at the hip and thoracic extension in the spine. But that’s for another day. Today then I want to offer some of my own thinking on some of the points raised in these articles. In doing so I hope t
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Dave Hedges
- Apr 8, 2012
- 2 min
TV Stretching – How to work flexibility into your daily routine
I’d rather do my accounts than stretch. I’d rather watch Sex and the City than stretch (actually that’s a lie, nothing is as bad as sex and the bloody city!) But stretching is a necessary evil. Without stretching regularly I wouldn’t be able to move. My hips and low back would become a single fused unit. My hamstrings would be like violin strings and my quads could be used to break bricks on.
You see I lift. A lot.
I also cycle every day.
I am on my feet from the minute I
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Dave Hedges
- Jan 13, 2012
- 3 min
Upper Body Mobility and The Art of Applied Laziness
I’m lazy. It’s one of the reasons I train the way I do. My background is in the martial arts, specifically Karate. My instructor was forever trying to instil the idea of efficiency into us, economy of motion and maximum return for minimum effort.
This kind of thinking is absolutely vital to a martial artist, or anyone involved in a fight / high risk scenario. I liked this idea of maximum return for minimal effort, it suited my lazy streak. So I’ve tried to implement the same
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