Mr. Stillwell no sooner enters than he stretches a raised arm back, his whole torso stretching with it.
Includes a very good instructional DVD with a 45-minute, 12-exercise strength-stretching routine featuring squats, sprinter starts, rows, chest presses, delt flies, overhead rollouts, planks, sprinter's crunches and hip, lateral and torso stretches.
"Uttanasana" or "standing forward fold" involves bending forward from the hips and not the waist, with the head touching your knees and the front of your torso stretching.
The extraordinary coordinations of swooping, sliding, ducking torsos, stretched-to-the limit legs, slicing arms and endlessly inventive lifts in Wayne McGregor's new "Infra" for the Royal Ballet in London last month showed that ballet can also be a contemporary art form.
Ms. Fukuda's strong torso and stretching limbs signaled a buried hope and purity.
Most days she goes through physical therapy, exercising her lower torso with stretches, hoping the lower part of her body will remember movement and somehow spring back to life.
Demispan (in cm) was measured with the subject standing upright with back straight, arms extended sideward at 90° to the torso, fingers stretched and the arm rested against a wall to avoid forward or backward bending.
They expressed yearning by lifting their torsos and stretching out their arms, their fingers softly clicking castanets.
But generally his line tends toward items less likely to violate sumptuary laws - a vast sea of skinny beige and gray T-shirts that are cut so well that your torso actually looks stretched.
