Denise Austin Quotes

Flexibility depends upon your range of motion and will enable you to do more day-to-day tasks with comfort and ease.

That's one thing I need to work on, my flexibility. I'm not mobile enough, am I.

What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.

Stretching was a major part of my preparation.

Hamstring flexibility and hip mobility for me are the two most important factors on the field.

My message is - keep moving. If you do, you'll keep arthritis at bay.

I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching.

Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.

From the moment I open my eyes, I'm trying to free my body. I'm trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

I've always been working with my rehab people, just to keep my body loose and fluid.

My aim for my dancing and fitness is to achieve flexibility in those disciplines so I am spending time to make sure I stretch after each workout or dancing session I do to give me further strength and ability.

I feel I could come out of the routes better, but because of the hips, I don't come out as well as I can.

I think the two exercises that have helped me the most include using the bands with my ankles, and then another one of my favorites is where I lean on a balloon-shaped ball with my forehead touching it and rotate my head front, back and sideways to build up the muscles and ligaments in my neck.

That's one of my focuses, is to increase my flexibility and strength and have greater range of motion.

For exercise, I am doing a lot of Pilates. I am very tight and not very flexible, and so it is a nice balance between stretching and doing exercises.

Stretching before and after every workout keeps muscles supple and helps elongate the lines of a ballerina's limbs.

I like to always remind my dancers about ways to avoid injury. One of the basic ways to avoid injury is to always make sure to stretch and warm up your body. This will loosen up your muscles, which will help to avoid common strain injuries such as shin splints and ankle strains.

I can't really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead I go swimming as often as possible.

My sister is a chiropractor and she says I have an unusually flexible lower back, but I don't do yoga, and I don't feel like I'm very bendy.

I do some weights and I do a lot of stretching.

A physical therapist does some unbelievable stretching with me.

I live for Pilates reformer class. I go at least three times a week. It's a great way to lengthen your muscles, stretch, and kind of relax your mind.

Pilates is great.

Physical therapy is part of my offseason routine. That has helped me greatly.

I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much.