Eliminate Winter Stiffness

Every year, as I get older, this cold winter weather seems to settle deeper and deeper into my bones.  My muscles tense up and my joints sometimes ache when I want them to flex.  I’m used to stiffness setting in once in a while and can usually eliminate it with a few stretches or a hot shower.  But for some reason, winter stiffness stays with me until the snow melts and the tulips break the ground.  I feel it deep in my bones, it goes with me to work and it’s even with me when I crawl into bed at night. The perpetual soreness made me crabby and the stiffness made me want to be sedentary but sitting around only aggravated the soreness so I decided to find a solution short of moving south during the winter months.  Turning to the Internet, I soon realized that the problem was not in the fact that I wasn’t putting forth enough effort to improve the problem, but the fact was that most stretching techniques simply don’t work to cure stiffness. Read more »