A lot of athletes—pro and amateur—are getting into mixing
“hard” sports (football, swimming, running) with “soft” ones
(yoga, stretching, T’ai Chi). P.E. teacher Bob Anderson teaches stretching clinics for professional and college athletic teams. His straight-forward book is a fine introduction to combining tension exercises with relaxation exercises, as U.S. sales of over 400,000 attest. It includes special stretching routines for use before, during, and after running, swimming, cycling, football, tennis, basketball, etc. I’ve been doing his stretching routines before and after running. It makes quite a difference.