Safe Stretch Stretching is a powerful tool that has many benefits: it can help make movement easier, increase your physical fitness, counter the effects of ageing, improve your posture, reduce stress, ease muscle pain and fatigue and it can help prevent injury from over lifting at work and during sports and other types of exercise. If you are relatively inactive and lead a sedentary lifestyle then stretching helps compensate. Stretching is an important component to staying healthy and supple, it can be done anywhere, anytime and best of all it is free Safe Stretch

Horse riding

Horse riding, also known as equestrianism or horseback riding may be done for practical reasons such as working or transportation, as a cultural exercise, or for recreation or competitive sport.
Competitive equestrianism includes horse racing, dressage, jumping and eventing, also known as horse trials.

During riding the rider has to react to the horse’s movement and stay balanced in the saddle. This involves relaxing and contracting many different muscles. Stretching is particularly important in horse riding because there is contraction but very little range of movement. The rider must remain in the saddle and most of the muscle contraction is isometric.

The psoas, iliacus and rectus abdominis contract to pull the torso forwards into a vertical position and as close as possible to its centre of gravity. Other muscles assisting with maintaining balance and posture include ….

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