Every newborn child is incredibly flexible. Even at the advanced ages of one, two and four years of age most children are
still very limber. Then all of a sudden.. everything begins to stiffen and get tighter.

Once most people hit their teens their muscles and joints have the beginning stages of rigor mortis. And once you hit your 20’s
and 30’s, several areas of the body feel as though they are ready for the scrap heap.

So if you’re already beyond the age of 40 can you still reverse this inflexibility?

Can you unwind your your muscles, joints and tendons?

Yes you can.

And as your body becomes more flexible so does your mind. There’s a reason why young children under the age of four test as highly creative and a few
years later seem to have lost it 95% of it. As the body goes so does the mind. And vice versa.

So how do we become inflexible?

Here are five ways:

1. We sit for long periods of time in chairs and do nothing to counter the gravitational pull on our bodies.

2. We eat too many toxic foods.

3. We swallow emotional difficulties which get stored in the tissues as tension.

4. We get injured and never learn how to remove the trauma from the tissues.

5. We do too much long distance cardiovascular exercise.

There are many other things we do that can cause inflexibility, but this list of five covers the easily correctible mistakes.

Take number one, for example.

If instead of sitting for hours at a time every single day, if you got up from your chair and did just one Hindu pushup and one slow-motion Hindu squat, then arched over a ball or on a foam roller, think what the exercises can do for your entire body. If you have a dog, you will see that it does a full-body stretch many times throughout the day. Mine do so before going for their twice daily walk. Animals instinctively stretch, each and every day.

Your spine is so vitally important to your health and when it becomes stiff, painful and inflexible, your energy is short-circuited. The good news is it doesn’t take much to open the circuits again. 

Having a loose, limber and flexible spine keeps you swimming in the fountain pool in youth.

In my Combat Conditioning and Combat Stretching programs, I cover back flexibility in a way you’re not being told… and the method works wonders quickly.

Many people think flexibility is all about doing the splits. Although doing the splits is an admirable achievement, the circuit breaker is not turned on from this stretch.

Knowing how to stretch your spine from your coccyx to your occiput is the hallmark of youth.

Make sure you’re stretching your spine on a daily basis if you want to live life with gusto, creativity and enthusiasm.

Get these programs NOW – and if you already have them, then learn to stretch from the inside out, the way I teach in my Power Postures course.

All of these courses are game changers.

Matt Furey

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