Looking for a quick stretching session you can do after a workout, run or just to loosen up after a long day at the desk? The simple practices will stretch you out, and calm the nervous system and help you recover faster.

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Everyday Athletes Recovery Stretches @ Wed, 01 Sep 2021 14:29 AEST

Everyday Athletes Recovery Stretches

Mark Moon is a holistic fitness and wellbeing coach with over 20 years experience educating people on the importance of a balanced and sustainable approach to their health and lifestyle. His philosophy is to teach people to think long term and big picture about how they want their life to look, and uses modalities such as strength training, yoga and life coaching to help them create it. 

As a dynamic and down-to-earth trainer, Mark believes there are three key areas to sustainable fitness: MINDSET - NUTRITION - MOVEMENT - and when optimized, there's no limit to the personal, professional and wider life goals you can achieve. Mark believes that when you find that 'sweet spot' between working out and working in, you have a sustainable way of achieving the goals you want. 

He encourages people to stop evaluating sweat or size with success, and instead use less superficial goals like an increased range of mobility while training, an easier movement in daily life that is pain and injury free. Living in the present moment free from non productive thoughts is also a focus, as that may be causing you to have lack of motivation, low energy, anxiety or depression.