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Larger chest … a more precise hit on the golf court, better sex … and all these can be achieved with the help of a simple movement.

No man likes to hear that he is rigid. In fact, there is only one context in which the word "rigid" is perceived as a compliment.

If it is taken out of that particular context, no one would like to be characterized as "inflexible" or "rigid", because there is only one step left to other unpleasant words like "darling, these relationship simply doesn’t work anymore", or wore "make sure I get the alimony on time".

A rigid body is not a reason for divorce, but from a certain point of view it is a sort of a separation process given to our wellbeing state we all want.

If your hips posterior muscles are too rigid, than it is possible to make some “runner knees”, a painful disease and which will take you off the court for a while.

Rigid breastplates limit your strength and increase the risk of accidents in your shoulders’ area. And if the pelvis’s muscles are not flexible enough, your swimming capacity will be substantially decreased – in a situation like this you don’t feel like swimming in the open like you did once.

The moves we present to you in the following lines represent a combination of exercises that relax the muscles and increase the flexibility in the critical areas of the body. It doesn’t matter how you arrange and fit them – you will no longer hear noises in your articulations, and your muscles will be more flexible than ever. And as a bonus we promise you a wave of energy which will flood your sexual life.

Make your knees younger
At this moment it doesn’t matter a bit that you don’t make a record in the 100m running. If you are like most of the other men, meaning you have your joints not lubricated, noisy and painful, you must know that the lack of flexibility, to which your muscles also contribute, is an essential reason for your pains.

"If you have flexibility problems, the moves performed at the level of your articulations cannot be accomplished by passing through the entire physiologically possible amplitude, meaning you will force your body to do things it is not capable of", says coach Vinny Comiskey from the US Olympic from the Training Center of Chula Vista, California.

The following stretching exercises offer you a double benefice: they increase the flexibility of the posterior muscles of the inferior limbs, simultaneously with the flexibility of the anterior muscles.

Modified lunges

• Find a smooth surface, on which you wouldn’t slip, and support your body on the right knee, having your left leg stretched in front, with support on the heel and with the toes oriented up.
• Keep your right hand on the floor for equilibrium, lie in front, move the weight on your left leg and hold the toes with your left hand.
• Pull the toes forward until you feel a stretching sensation in the posterior part of your left leg.
• You should also feel a stretch in the anterior part of the right thigh.
• Keep this position for 30 seconds (or as much as you can), than relax. Alternate the legs. Make 3 to 5 stretches with each leg.

Add 3 centimeters in your chest’s width
It is just an assumption I make but I think you are very proud of the size and the strength of your breastplates muscles, or you would be very proud if the months or the years in which you have done chest pushing would have produced some changes of the size and strength.

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Actually, all the time that you have spent on the bench seems to have affected negatively this area.

Mike Bracko, a specialist in sports physiology at the American College of Sports Medicine, says that if you work your chest too much, the breastplate muscles get shorter in a way and they become rigid.

This means that the muscles you are trying to develop will pull your shoulders ahead and will spin your arms inside, having as an effect the sensation that your breastplate muscles are smaller than they really are.

And because of the normal alignment of the shoulders being modified, there is a higher risk for accidents. To restore the flexibility of your breastplate muscles and to reduce injuries risk (and of course for all the girls to admire your impressive chest, Bracko recommends this exercise.

Perform it after a warm-up, but before the force exercises for your breastplates. Cross stretching, stand with your soles spread at the width of your shoulders and with your knees tightly flexed. Raise your arms in order to form a “t” with the chest and keep your palms oriented down.

Spin tightly your thumbs behind and pull your chest forward, pulling your hands through the posterior. Try to put the shoulder blade in line, increasing the movement amplitude.

Now, instead of holding the stretch for a long time, perform five "pulsatile" stretches. This means that you will “throw” your arms behind for a few centimeters and then allow them to come forward for a few centimeters.

You have to repeat this movement for 2-3 series of 5 "pulsations", than continue with a series of 10 push-ups. Only at this moment you may consider yourself ready to work your chest muscles.

Lose the stress after a long day at the office
Although clacking your vertebras for a couple of times after a long period of immobility is a method which has entered in the "arsenal" of those who spend their life at the office, this doesn’t have any effect on the lumbar muscles, according to Richard Cotton.

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