Change 8 - Perform Stretch Routine

I have decided to perform a daily stretch routine.  My muscles have, for several years, been very, very tight.  This tightness leads to lower back pack pain and leg cramping.  I plan to do the routine four times a week.

Over the years, I have suffered with lower back pain.  When I play golf, a game that I love, I spend the first four or five holes worried that my back is going to stiffen up and start giving me trouble.  Inevitably, this leads to stress - and on the golf course, stress kills.

When I was in high school, I actually went to a physical therapist.  She told me that my hamstrings were extremely tight and that I needed to stretch them three times a day!  Of course, like most high school kids, I just ignored her and didn’t do what she suggested.  Now, I’m paying the price.