[Paddlewise] Day Hatch

At 08:52 AM 4/24/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Three or four times a day while sitting in
>a chair point your knees forward and twist your upper body around to look
>behind you WHILE PRESSING YOUR LEFT HAND HARD AGAINST THE OUTSIDE OF YOUR
>RIGHT KNEE WHILE LOOKING RIGHT AND VICE VERSA TO LOOK LEFT.  You'll feel a
>pleasant stretching sensation in your waist area.  After a week I guarantee
>increased flexibility.  And, eventually, you should be able to stick your
>head into the day hatch, you'll be so limber.  [kidding again]


this is called, in yoga, a spinal twist.  i have found that yoga, more than 
any other fitness activity i do, limbers me up for kayaking, specifically 
for kayaking.  i have a video, kripalu yoga, that i really like.  among 
other things it lengthens your hamstrings bigtime which is a good thing, 
somehow, for my kayaking.

it's good to do that stretch (in caps above) on the water in the boat 
too.  i do it about every 45 mins. to half-hour.

middle-aged kcd (is 46 middle-aged?)  --- hoping Middle Aged Jim gets his 
head out of the day hatch, or at least that he left a PowerBar in there if 
he can't.  :-)



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