Not last and not least (more TK!), STRETCH, seriously, STRETCH EVERY NIGHT. I guess when I say seriously stretch every night, I get that Sunday nights you fall asleep watching television at nine-thirty and have to be wheeled to bed in a wheelbarrow; that happens. But seriously stretch every night is the standard I have in mind. And if you're too sick or tired to do sunrises, or if you flipped over sledding with your nephew and niece and smushed your neck a little bit, you can still stretch, yes, you can stretch twice in a single day!
| SUN | MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT |
| MORNING sleep in | MORNING sunrises | MORNING suicides | MORNING sunrises | MORNING suicides | MORNING sunrises | MORNING Fleetwood Speed |
| PLAY WCR Rioters | WORK Office | WORK Office | WORK Office | WORK Office | WORK Office | HOBBY Review & Plan |
| HOBBY | WORK Office | WORK Office | WORK Office | WORK Office | WORK Office | HOBBY |
| HOBBY | WORK Office | WORK Office | WORK Office | WORK Office | WORK Office | HOBBY |
| PASTIME Choppers | PLAY MOD Skate | PLAY USA Speed | PLAY WCR Circuit | PLAY USA Speed | PASTIME | PASTIME |
| EVENING stretches | EVENING stretches | EVENING stretches | EVENING stretches | EVENING stretches | EVENING stretches | EVENING stretches |
I believe a lot of hoodoo about stretching, with nothing like science to back it up. In no particular order:
- It's not just nice, it's necessary for building muscle.
- Which I picture like pulling taffy: you fold it over itself, and then you pull it, and then you fold it and pull it again...
- I actually don't know how to pull taffy.
- It keeps you from getting stiff and sore.
- It works out the lactic acid.
- Though I think the lactic acid thing is mostly a myth.
- This has to be true: it develops flexibility.
- And flexibility in motion is agility. (I made that up. Doesn't mean it isn't true.)
- It develops body awareness, which makes you better at learning new moves.
- It doesn't hurt, anyway.
- And it does feel nice.
- It's an easy good habit to get into.
- Getting into an easy good habit gets you in the habit of getting into good habits.
- So you can get into harder good habits.
- It's, like, a gateway good habit.
