Previously profiled here, Roger Frampton has a new stretching program available to everyone (‘The Frampton Method: The Essential Guide to Stretching’), and after exploring some of his simple stretches, I’ve found it’s unleashed a better way of living, so I’m recommending everyone give it a try. It’s amazing the transformation a consistent but easy program of stretching can provide. I’ve spent the past few months getting into the surprisingly life-changing squat, which has provided relief and re-energizing inspiration during an office work day. It’s the pose on the cover of his new book, and it has completely reinvigorated and revitalized my forty-something bones. The age of the importance of flexibility is upon me, and I’m listening to what the body needs.
Frampton offers a program that is less focused on developing vanity targets, and more about providing the framework and tools necessary to improve the quality of life. It certainly does make things much more comfortable and enjoyable, and at a time when I’m less concerned with appearance and more concerned with maintaining some semblance of health as I gear into the later years, this is of utmost importance. Of course one side effect is that your body will, as a general rule, look better when you engage with a fitness program; Frampton has already earned his Hunk of the Day crowning as evidence of this. Check out the new program here.
