Kelvin Fletcher Quotes

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

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

Stretching exercises promote flexibility, so you move fluidly.

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.

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

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.

I pride myself on being limber.

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 why I got into Pilates: because I can reduce the stress and impact in my joints while still being able to increase strength and flexibility, and it's going to pay dividends.

In order to resist injuries and stay healthy, you have to be mobile and agile. You have to be able to have your body work for you.

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

They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.

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

I believe it's extremely important to include some other type of fitness activity in your training, so cross training will help you to avoid injury when you are dancing.

If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as your legs, whether you're an athlete or an actor.

I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as it can be so I can swing my kids around and not worry about aches and pains.

I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.

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.

I tried doing yoga, but I have dislocating shoulders, one of which has been pinned, so I find things such as yoga and pilates, where you have to stretch quite high up with your arms and things, quite difficult.

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.

A lot of the weaknesses we have are based on a lack of lateral movement, which can set you up for injury. When you exercise in multiple planes, you see improvements in balance, mobility, and function.

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.

You become more aware of your body when you go through a long injury. You work on things you don't know about until you get injured, so different muscles.

Even at the age of 33 I was one of the most flexible at Arsenal when it came to my back muscles.