LEAN INTO THE POWER OF KINSTRETCH

YOU’VE NEVER STRETCHED like this. Sure, you stretch your arms to the ceiling when you get out of bed. Before a workout, you warm up by swinging your arms and touching your toes, and you cool down with calf stretches and quad pulls.

None of that is what Andreo Spina, D.C., RCCSS(C), calls stretching. The sports-specialist chiropractor wants you to stand tall, squeeze your glutes and abs, and slowly rotate your arm high overhead-shaped muscle connecting your arm to your spine, hard, as if you were trying to make it spasm (which is normal if it does). Spina calls this method Kinstretch, and it’s a burgeoning practice that promises to increase strength while erasing joint pain.