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...important. Not coincidentally, the stretching regimen that most pro-baseball teams use may be the best way to go. Reason: baseball, compared with such physical-contact sports as football or such running-intense games as soccer, more closely parallels the average Joe's routines, according to Paul Fournier, strength-and-conditioning director of the Florida Marlins. "As in everyday life, we see a lot of muscle-use imbalance in baseball players," says Fournier. "Overuse of the right arm, for example, or more stress on one side of the body because you're always running the same way around the bases...
...Fournier uses a mix of static and active-dynamic stretches that help keep players flexible, even "when they're standing in their spikes." Among the static stretches the Marlins do every...
HAMSTRINGS Sit with your legs spread and toes up, leaning the torso as far as possible toward one foot; don't bend your back or spine (a rule for all stretches). "Keeping appropriate posture matters more than being able to touch your toes," says Fournier. Do one side for 20 sec.; relax. Now do the other; four times each side...
...teaching mission in sub-Saharan Africa. There I was appalled to see patients with acute pneumonia sent home to die, unless the family could pay $180 in cash for hospitalization. I am reassured to read that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands strict accountability from its grantees. ALBERT FOURNIER Amiens, France
...Africa. I was appalled to see patients there with acute pneumonia (very likely related to aids) sent home to die, unless the family could pay $180 in cash for hospitalization. I am reassured to read that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands strict accountability from its grantees. Albert Fournier Amiens, France I am sick and tired of seeing bono in the news posing as a superhero saving the poor. The world is full of organizations and unknown individuals who could achieve considerably more than Bono has in the fight against poverty if they were granted a fraction...