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--- In , John Enzinas <jenzinas@g...> 
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> I've always found that the best way to warm up my muscles for an
> activity was to start doing that activity but not at full power.

....Hey Vagueman, how's Canada? Still cold up North Eh? :) So still 
hacking and SGing? How goes it for you on the arms these days.
Yeah starting out very slow, that's about all I do for warming up at 
least for SG...

>untill i get into the swing of things (no pun intended).
(wah wah wah wahhhh, trombone sounds making fake laughter!)

Wishing all warriors/shovellers/musclehedz/farmers or whoever else 
does this shit! LOL :) And hey my biceps are getting to be like 
steel! I think I will get a 16 lb sledge pretty soon to keep up 
with Reinhard and the Shovelglove Joneses!
Here is an excellent book on Stretching.. Most of it involves PNF 
stretching. This means Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation...
Basically, we are hard wired *NOT* to walk like Frankenstein.. The 
reason our joints are able to swing and bend freely when we move is 
that one muscle contracts and simultaneously the antagonist muscle 
will inhibit and relax... If our triceps stayed extended, you can 
imagine how hard it would be to do a bicep curl... Same with our 
legs and basically, all skeletal muscles are like this... Otherwise 
we would all walk around looking like Frankenstein (all apologies to 
guys who look like Frankenstein here LOL :)
So this book teaches you how you can trick your body into thinking 
that it's doing a motion so that you can reap all the benefits of 
the neuromuscular facilitation/inhibition and use it to improve the 
depth of your stretches... it is like magic...
So here's the book, fairly inexpensive, and I think a must have for 
serious atheletes. And fake farmers :)
Love,
Deb
http://www.exrx.net/Store/HK/FacilitatedStretching.html 

Hope this link works guys, but if not, just google search with the 
words PNF stretching and loads of crap will appear before your 
muscular eyeballs :)
Have a shovellin day!