Range of Motion Quotes

Training for strength and flexibility is a must. You must use it to support your techniques. Techniques alone are no good if you don't support them with strength and flexibility.

I don't believe I throw quite the same as before I was injured.

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 once thought I would never be able to kick a ball again.

I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn't understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a lot of stomach work.

For my equipment, we're not about running. We're about wheels, action sports, and that type of thing. So we want range of motion and shock absorption. The foot itself has 28 degrees of ankle motion as you press into it or you put weight into it. A typical running or walking foot has kind of around 10 to 12, at max, flex at the toe.

Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.

I can't even touch my toes!

The soreness I have is expected. I have total movement.

My knee is almost back to normal. I am back in training.

Even now with the operation, with the damage done, my ankle probably is never going to be back to 100 per cent.

I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.

Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.

You see what I can use in my range, even with tall people, imagine what I could do to someone half my size.

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.

I have a flexible body.

Injuries are tough. I tore my ACL 50 percent in my left leg. I can't kick. I'm not going to fight without my left leg, which is my best weapon.

A big upper body is not a great thing for tennis, and for me, flexibility is important.

When my knee feels good, I'm always going to feel I can do more.

I was told as a teenager I'd never box again. I had a really bad wrist injury; I couldn't even shadow box for six months. I went through surgery just to try and manage it.

Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw.

I'd just like to be able to walk without pain or run without a limp.

The older you get, the longer your jump shot becomes.

Oftentimes, heavy weights can tear the muscle fiber causing it to bulk, but using a lighter weight for a longer duration and allowing your body to move in many different ways to target all of the muscles will lengthen them without tearing.

I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.