"Lastics is a great way to prepare your body for any kind of movement. Within one class I saw a huge improvement in my flexibility, as well as my balance and control. This truly works wonders!"
Marina Micalizzi
Billy Elliot on Broadway
“I found muscles that I never felt before and was much more limber than usual afterwards."
Randy Foye
Los Angeles Clippers, NBA
"Lastics has been completely new and rewarding experience for the Joffrey Academy students. It has helped them think about using their muscles in different ways in ballet class as it incorporates exercises that both stretch and strengthen muscles. "
Anna Reznik
Academy Artistic Director, Joffrey Chicago
“It’s definitely a different approach to stretching that works. It released the gripping I’d been feeling in my lower and middle back.”
Andrew Feldman
M.D., Chief of Sports Medicine, St. Vincent's Medical Center, Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, New York Medical College and New York Rangers Head Team Physician
"These exercises actually do what all the other exercises say they do, but really don't. I do a lot of yoga and used to be an athlete. Lastics was the best stretch I've ever had, bar none. And you won’t believe how good you feel afterwards."
Hoyt Richards
Supermodel, Actor, Writer
Lastics® is a stretching technique born directly from the world of dance that releases tension, increases flexibility and stimulates circulation by teaching you how to move your body in ways that stretch and elongate your muscles from end-to-end. Not only is it a stretch workout like no other, it will also change the way you think about, and understand, your body.
Lastics was designed by Donna Flagg, a trained dancer, to give people of all ages, body types, and fitness levels a way to improve their flexibility based on techniques dancers use to stay lean and limber.
Improved flexibility results when you know how to articulate your body in ways that isolate the ends of your muscles to gently pull them in opposite directions. Unlike methods that rely on external force to push a stretch, Lastics trains your body to move internally to stretch itself. That is how dancers move the way they do and it is also the key to their flexibility. They move from the inside first. This is what makes Lastics so different and it is a difference you will feel immediately.
Everything you need to stretch in a safe and meaningful way lies within your body. If you learn how to move your hips and spine, and then use your arms, legs and head as natural weights, you won’t believe the results! You will move, perform and feel better with muscles that are longer, stronger, more supple and healthy from the inside-out and from end-to-end!
The Benefits of Lastics:
- Lengthens muscles and strengthens the body
- Makes unconscious parts of the body conscious
- Increases body awareness and control
- Develops a visceral connection to the body
- Relieves tightness and tension
- Improves posture
- Uses intricately small movements to generate a maximum stretch
- Feels good
The Benefits of Stretching:
- Reduces the chance of injury
- Relieves tightness in muscles
- Combats the aging process
- Reduces muscle fatigue
- Enhances athletic performance
- Promotes relaxation
- Releases stress
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Increases blood flow to the muscles
