More easy stretches with the ball.

Mick Taylor called. He wants to be back in the Stones. Sorry, job’s filled.

How sorry do you think he is?

Anyway, Swiss ball. Swiss Miss. [yodels] Remember that commercial, Mr. Cameraman? Excellent commercial.

Simple stretch on a Swiss ball number two. You just lay over the Swiss ball. Look at that. You open up your spine again. You relax your neck, your shoulders, and you can roll around in the ball. It looks stupid. It looks really simple, but I’m telling you it’s a great stretch.

It opens up the spine. You get relaxed. You start moving your body, getting these joints unlocked. I cannot stress this enough. You’ve got to start unlocking the body.

OK, now when you get to a point where you start being able to do some workouts with this, one of the best and simplest workouts to work the whole lot is going to be this one.

Mr. Cameraman, let’s see. I don’t know where to shoot, but here we go.

What you do is you get into a push up position, just like this. And you just bring your knees down. Straighten them out. Bring them down. Straighten them out. You get the idea.

And then you could come back and do a nice quadriceps stretch.

Strength and stretch. It’s how you get really physically fit. I just wrote this article called “Cross Fit” because that seems to be the new craze right now. Cross Fit’s really about what I’ve been showing you all week. We’ve been doing it for years here at the Hanzo mansion. We’ve just been calling it exercise. Now it’s called Cross Fit. Apparently it’s very chic, very important and very stupid because any good athlete does cross training. It’s a redundant kind of comment and concept.

Cross training, Cross Fit is just all a means to an end, to become physically fit.

Buy a Swiss ball. Learn a bunch of stuff on it. How to manipulate the ball, stretch, flex, bend. Guess what? You start getting in shape. You start moving your body and become truly Cross Fit. You have the athletic ability, a performance level.

We’ll go deeper on this when I rant and rave about that later. Probably the next one we do.

Anyway, peace.