STRETCH YOUR LIMITS

BECAUSE FIT IS THE NEW RICH

TWISTED LOGIC

We know, stretching can be rather... dull. Commit to it, though, and you’ll increase your athletic potency – and slash the time you spend sidelined

WHEN IT COMES to flexibility, I harbour a deep and abiding shame. I simply don’t bend and hinge as I know I should. One of the problems with this is that your body continually lets you know about it. For me, these reminders start predawn when I perform my own 10-minute stretching routine on the living-room rug while keeping one eye on CNN to make sure the world’s still spinning. Yes, I do stretch, and have done for years, and I know it’s helped prevent hamstring strains, lower-back flare-ups and the like, and yet still I wouldn’t qualify as remotely supple. I used to be able to lie on my back, throw my legs up and over my head, and touch the floor behind me with both feet. These days, my attempts at this manoeuvre are risible. My