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Health and Fitness: stretching it: what's your limit?

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-APR-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
RECENTLY a professional dancer in his 20s called for advice on his back pain. When I saw him, it became clear the problem wasn't his back. He didn't have the core strength to perform his roles; his pelvis was too loose and his inner thighs too weak to support his flexibility.

Flexibility and strength obsess every dancer. How can you get higher, bigger, better and gain an edge in auditions and getting roles? What few realize is that too much flexibility can backfire.

A dancer's flexibility depends upon the elasticity of their ligaments, muscles, and soft tissue, called fascia. Longer, lankier dancers tend to be hyper-mobile; shorter, more compact dancers tend...

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