Stretching exercises that promote better posture, increased strength and flexibility.
Most workouts emphasize overstimulating specific muscles, this often leads to muscle problems and injuries. Freedom Stretch focuses on reinforcing your entire body, building up a 360 degree network of muscles. This allows you to maintain better posture and develop the ones that are often underutilized ones. The low impact stretching exercises are easy to learn and will significantly reduce your likelihood of injury. All exercises are done from a standing position, having no strain on knees or back, and no difficult positions to get into.
Freedom Stretch enhances your performance
Having trouble continuing the sports that you love? Whether you’re having trouble cycling, playing rounds of golf, or any other physical endeavor you love, Freedom Stretch can help you continue by strengthening support muscles and find balance and muscle memory. It is the perfect compliment to yoga, Pilates or weigh lifting.
Your Posture
Your posture is very important as your spinal alignment determines what you are able to do and how well you can do it. With a proper spinal alignment your ability to move and do work is greatly enhanced. You can move and work more effortlessly because your spine and network of muscles are coordinated. Your muscles and spine can interact in a way that reduces stress and trauma to the back and increases your ability to more effortlessly perform the daily functions of walking, lifting and usual movements of life. You will perform better when doing physical work and playing sports. You will feel better because with Freedom Stretch your muscles will be more toned and joints, especially of the upper body, will be more supple.
Your Spine is your core
There are various ideas relating to your core. Many people believe your core is the muscle complex located in the abdominal region. It is true that contracting those muscles can generate power but there is another way to look at it. In the human body the spine consisting of vertebrae, discs together with the muscles, tendons and ligaments is central to the structure of the whole body. Without a healthy and strong spine, our ability to move and do work is extremely limited. Our spine is like the core of an apple. It is central to the whole body and for us it is where all movement originates. Our central nervous system resides there as does our cerebrospinal fluid. A healthy spine and surrounding muscles pumps this fluid throughout the spine and brain. We definitely influence the health of the spine by training the muscles near the spine and the whole upper body. These are some of the benefits of Freedom Stretch Exercise.
Your Spine and Back muscle connection
Your spine is central to your body’s structure and the muscles surrounding the spine help keep the spine properly aligned. In a way we can say that when we have proper muscle tone around the spine, we are creating a 360 degree network of well conditioned muscles around the spine. This assists the spine in its movement be it bending, extending or twisting and also greatly protects the spine from injury due to extreme or sudden movement. Vertebrae are more secure in their positioning. With a well conditioned spinal-muscle system we can do more work around the house and garden with greater endurance and less soreness. The exercises are great for playing sports be it for the weekend warrior or the serious athlete. The exercises are great as a warmup for tennis, golf, yoga, Pilates, martial arts and just about any activity you enjoy. For those who don’t have time to exercise regularly, Freedom Stretch is great for activating the muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints. For seniors who want a simple stretching program that they can do at home at their desired intensity level, these exercises are perfect. For office workers who want exercises to loosen their neck and shoulders and help them regain a beautiful posture and just feel better, Freedom Stretch is the answer.
How does Freedom Stretch work?
In Freedom Stretch we recognize that the spine is our core. We also recognize that there is a difference in strength and purpose of the muscles. We have larger, stronger muscles and we have deeper supporting muscles. That being said, all the muscles were meant to work together a smooth, harmonious flow of contraction and release. However, in many cases the larger muscles are used in ways that don’t stimulate the deeper, supporting muscles. The larger muscle sets tend to dominate and the deeper muscles tend to atrophy. If the supporting muscles are not trained to assist, the larger muscles take most of the load and are subject to frequent injury and soreness. With Freedom Stretch we learn to activate the supporting muscles as well. This assists and protects the larger muscles making them less prone to injury and fatigue. One more thing also occurs. With the coordinating of both large and supporting muscles, our ability to create a flowing, seamless movement of our upper body and arms is regained. This is a very important phenomenon because when we learn how to move this way our new fluidity gives us better results in sports and various skills we want to perfect including martial arts. You will gain more strength, better coordination and more stamina.
Great for people on the go
There are 25 exercises in the Freedom Stretch program and they can be done in 15 to 20 minutes. You can even start by doing the first 5 or 10 exercises if time is limited or if you find them a little strenuous at first.. Another approach is to do all the front oriented exercises in the morning and all the back oriented exercises in the evening. Start today, Freedom Stretch exercises will start you on the road to freedom to do more of the things you like with more freedom of movement and freedom from many of the aches and pains you have been carrying around for years. I have seen many examples of this from the teaching of my Freedom Stretch classes and testimonials from those who have purchased the program.
Overall health benefits
Doing Freedom Stretch regularly can have wonderful health benefits for you. The exercises are moderately aerobic providing a gentle level of stimulation to the heart and circulatory system. The movements help with deeper breathing and the lymph fluid is pumped from areas of stagnation so that it can be moved and purified in the body.
We exercise with a stick
In order to get proper spinal alignment and activate all the muscles of the upper body, we use a stick. The stick gives us resistance for muscle and joint conditioning and gives us more connection with our spine. This enables us to feel our spinal positioning and make changes to our posture. (Doing the exercises in front of a full length mirror is highly recommended.) It can be hardwood or softwood, PVC pipe or polycarbonate tube. We don’t use anything heavier than hardwood as that would just tend to activate the larger muscles and defeat the purpose of activating all muscles evenly and smoothly. We don’t use elastic bands or bungee type cords as that could cause injury when doing these exercises. Recommended length of stick is 5ft for people up to 5 ft. 8 in. and 5 ½ ft for those taller. For those taller than 6ft. 2in or so, a 6 ft. stick would be best. Diameter is 1 in to 1 ⅛ in.
The products we offer
The Freedom Stretch Exercise program is available in DVD format. Price is $19.95 plus S/H + tax Freedom Stretch digital format the price is $14.95 + tax Spiral bound Freedom Stretch booklet which shows you the exercises in picture format. This does not replace the video as there is no instruction. It is meant for those who have become proficient in doing the exercises and want to do them without video. This helps you learn the exercises in their proper order so you can do them whenever or wherever you want. Freedom Stretch Booklet Price is $9.95 plus S/H + tax. Purchase sticks at hardware stores or hardwood sticks at specialty wood vendors.
The Originator of Freedom Stretch
These exercises were originally created for myself, Richard Baume, to heal a shoulder injury. It took four years to develop the 25 exercise program. I practiced acupuncture for 35 years which gave me the opportunity to better understand the movement of the human body and how to correct it. I wanted to share these exercises with my patients and so the video was created. I lived in Japan while studying acupuncture and did martial arts for several years. So it was natural to use a stick to do the exercises as use of sticks in martial arts is common.
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