858 How Flexibility Benefits Your Health

03/21/18 • 23 min

Create Your Now Archive 3 with Kristianne Wargo

Fitness is essential for your overall wellness. Let's focus on how flexibility benefits your health.

The purpose of flexibility training helps with daily functional needs.

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With an increase in sedentary lifestyles, it is essential that you maintain flexibility. Otherwise, as you age, your flexibility will deteriorate and the simple, daily activities will become a chore.

That's not something any of us want to accept.

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Let's expand on the purpose of flexibility. You can enhance your performance in resistance training and aerobic training. Science supports that injury decreases with flexibility training and allows for a greater ROM (range of motion). You also become more in tune with your body.

Benefits of Flexibility Training:

Reduces stress in your muscles worked during exercise.
Releases the build-up of tension during exercise.
Helps to improve posture.
Reduces the risk of injury.
Improves your overall strength as it increases your ROM.

How often do you perform flexibility training? DAILY

How long (the duration) do you need to practice flexibility? 5-10 minutes

How hard is flexibility training? Will it hurt? Stretching should not be painful. You will experience discomfort or feel a little uncomfortable. But the tightness will release. If you feel pain, you should NOT be stretching!

TYPES of STRETCHING:

Static Stretching: specific to an area; hold the position for 20 seconds, rest 20 seconds, then repeat 2x.
Dynamic Stretching: it's the full ROM of an area.It warms up the joints, maintains flexibility, and reduces muscle stress and tension.

The K.I.S.S. ~ Add flexibility training into your fitness routine!

Guidelines for Flexibility Training:

Go slow. Work within your limits.
Breathe deeply. Slow and steady.
Focus on each muscle. Feel the tension and stress release.
Modify to fit your ability.
Connect the training with your meditation.

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Fitness is essential for your overall wellness. Let's focus on how flexibility benefits your health.

The purpose of flexibility training helps with daily functional needs.

Desire to be supported and encourage by other like-minded women? Join us at Women of IMPACT. http://facebook.com/groups/thewomenofimpact

With an increase in sedentary lifestyles, it is essential that you maintain flexibility. Otherwise, as you age, your flexibility will deteriorate and the simple, daily activities will become a chore.

That's not something any of us want to accept.

CREATE YOUR NOW TV

Benefits of Flexibility Training:

Reduces stress in your muscles worked during exercise.
Releases the build-up of tension during exercise.
Helps to improve posture.
Reduces the risk of injury.
Improves your overall strength as it increases your ROM.

How often do you perform flexibility training? DAILY

How long (the duration) do you need to practice flexibility? 5-10 minutes

TYPES of STRETCHING:

Static Stretching: specific to an area; hold the position for 20 seconds, rest 20 seconds, then repeat 2x.
Dynamic Stretching: it's the full ROM of an area.It warms up the joints, maintains flexibility, and reduces muscle stress and tension.

The K.I.S.S. ~ Add flexibility training into your fitness routine!

Guidelines for Flexibility Training:

Go slow. Work within your limits.
Breathe deeply. Slow and steady.
Focus on each muscle. Feel the tension and stress release.
Modify to fit your ability.
Connect the training with your meditation.

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TAKE A.I.M. ~ Action Ignites Motivation - This is a complimentary coaching call with me. You will be able to discuss your specific situation and gain tools and strategies to move you forward.

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We are so quick to judge and pass on the yuck and muck in life. How different would your day be if you share the joy?

The joy of goodness God has bestowed on your life.

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The joy of chaos to remind you of your fortitude. The joy of laughter to break the chains of agony. The joy of simplicity to stir the new adventure within. The joy of the unexpected to count your blessings. The joy of living created by your God of grace, of mercy, and of love.

Share the joy!

I realize that you get tired and crabby; overwhelmed and frustrated. But what good does it do you when you freak out?

Think back to a time of a freak out moment. You probably didn't fair too well. Maybe feelings were hurt.

The K.I.S.S. ~ Share the Joy!

Let God take your messy middle and create a bouquet of blessings.

Only God can take what you can't control and turn it into your victory.

Share the joy!

Don't self-destruct and bite off more than you can chew.

Take a time-out to REfocus, REnew, and REcommit, to God's perfect design, YOU, His masterpiece.

Share the joy!

Be a blessing to a stranger. Be a smile to a friend. Be a heartbeat to the lost. Be YOU!!!

"Share the JOY!"

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859 My Strength Is My Story with Jodi Whitslett

My Strength is My Story with Jodi Whitsitt, Extra Grace Required. She shares her emotions, struggles, and joys from a single parent to a lifetime of love. After being knocked down multiple times, she continue to rise up with her faith, family, and the most incredible friendships. Your heart will be blessed.

Jodi Whitsitt: A recent widow, a proud mom of three ridiculously amazing children (ages 9 to 21), a blogger, a motivational speaker, and an aspiring writer. After beginning her life as a single parent, Jodi found a lifetime of love with her husband, Mark. However, a tragedy came into their lives where God gave her the extra grace required. You will be touched by her beautiful story.

Jodi's mission is to turn her pain into purpose by "keepin' it real" with you!

"I call it a God-gut feeling." ~ Jodi Whitsitt WEBSITE for Jodi Whitsitt: ExtraGraceRequired.com

Enjoy the multitude of topics discussed including grief, joy, homeschooling, hot messes, and a lifetime of love! Be inspired and encouraged to keep moving forward with the God-gut feelings. Crazy and all!

Grace
God's Word
The Book of James
The "Living" Word
How God speaks to us.
God's voice
Prayer
Single parenthood
Shame
Heart work
Worship band
The love connection
Golden Years
Annoying qualities
Cinderella story
A little drag
Mayo Clinic
Neuropathy
The trap
Caregiver
Resentment
Homeschooling
Her husband's death
Time as a family
Guilt
Fears
What if I die?
Alone
Who am I?
What is your purpose for me?
Deep sorrow
Joy
Am I not enough?
Leaning in
Writing
Trust
Extra Grace Required
Exposing Truth
A Universal Experience
Real Time
Ranking grief
Grandpa's Loss
Lifetime of Love
Adoption
Gratitude
What's next?

WEBSITE for Jodi Whitsitt: ExtraGraceRequired.com "Grief really is a love story." ~ Jodi Whitsitt

Quotes and statements within the interview:

"By the grace of God. That's how I get up in the morning and that's how I tackle my day."

"Life is hard."

"And proof that it really is a living word."

"It's an ancient book written thousands of years ago. Yet it has relevance today. And it has relevance to what you're going through right now. And that makes it presently relevant and alive."

"I carried a ton of shame."

"How God took that imperfect situation and created good from it."

"You don't find the right person until you become the right person."

"I just knew God had a father, an earthly father, in mind for my daughter and a husband for me."

"We didn't have a gap in our heart anymore."

"I look back on that time and really just tears flow because of how joyful it was."

"At that time it was suppose to be terrible, but not terminal."

"Because he was so brilliant and science-minded, he knew what was happening to him."

"We kind of lost in that period of time the husband and wife partnership."

"I thought I lost my everlasting mind."

"I was a hot mess for a long time!"

"There was a time where I felt God went dark on me."

"I can seek joy and still carry sorrow."

"God gave me an example."

"Allowing myself to feel what I was feeling and not beat myself up for feeling it."

"This sucks!"

"The joy of the Lord is my strength."

"If it's universal, why do we avoid it like the plague?"

"He (God) picked the hot messes."

"It was a beautiful, dream, prayer-answered moment in our life."

In the beginning, after losing him, gratitude was hard."

"He's shown me to chill out and trust Him."

What has your story gifted you?

Closer relationship with God.
A reminder --- He is magnificent.
He holds me when I can't stand on my own.
Clearer vision of the pain and suffering of others.

"He didn't make me empathetic for nothing."

"He has allowed me to take my imperfections and my story to comfort others."

"Pain can be transformed into comfort and unity and strength. That it doesn't have to be lonely and overwhelming and isolating. It's opportunity for community."

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