Stretching out with 5 Inch Heel Shoes

There's just no way for you to imagine what it is like to wear 5 inch heel shoes if you have never worn a pair before. If you wear high heeled shoes, then you will be towering up on a tiny spike, perilously suspended above the ground. This is exactly how it feels when I wore one, although this may seem to be an exaggeration to you. I almost fell over when I put 5 inch heel shoes on for the first time.

I grew up as sort of a tomboy so wearing high heeled shoes for the first was kind of a rite of passage for me. I prefer climbing trees with the boys or playing football rather than doing the things other girls my age would do. I also felt that going to church was the worst activity because I hated all those fancy dresses and skirts. I would not even look at high heel shoes at that time. However, my older sister forced me to try her 5 inch heel shoes on.

My older sister literally made me put on her 5 inch heel shoes when she was babysitting me. I was trying so hard to escape that she had to hold me down and would not let me get up until I promised to try the shoes on. I felt very ashamed and I hated it at first when I wore the high heeled shoes. However, it started to grow on me after a while. I began to like the challenge of walking around the house in high heel shoes. I also liked the way it made me shake my hips while I walked. I was getting to the age where I liked attention from the boys, and wearing 5 inch heel shoes would give me just that, although I still felt like a tomboy.

However, my sister never allowed me to wear her 5 inch heel shoes again. My sister kept the 5 inch stiletto shoes away from me, once she found out that I liked it. Nonetheless, I did get to wear prettier shoes from then on. You see, my mom was willing to indulge me with a few trips to get new clothes because she was thrilled to see that I was getting more into girls? shoes and girls? fashion. It was really a lot of fun, and it actually gave me more freedom. I could still dress up like a boy when I wanted to, but I also got to dress up like a girl. I also bought my very own 5 inch heel shoes as soon as I got old enough.

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Stretching Can Explode Your Muscle Growth

 by: Nick Nilsson

When you think about gaining muscle, stretching is probably not the first thing that pops into your head. But did you know that stretching plays a critical role in building muscle?

Every muscle in your body is enclosed in a bag of tough connective tissue known as fascia. Fascia is important for holding your muscles in their proper place in your body.

But your fascia may also be holding back your muscle growth. Think for a moment about your muscles. You train them and feed them properly. They want to grow and will grow but something is holding them back. They have no room to grow!

Because fascia is so tough, it doesnt allow the muscle room to expand. It is like stuffing a large pillow into a small pillowcase. The size of the muscle wont change regardless of how hard you train or how well you eat because the connective tissue around your muscles is constricting the muscles within.

The best example of this is the calf muscle. The lower leg is riddled with fascia because of its tremendous weight-bearing duties in the body. It is because of this fascia that many trainers have great difficulty developing their calves.

The solution: stretching.

Using the pillowcase example from above, imagine you can expand the size of the pillowcase by stretching it. Suddenly, the pillow within has more room and will expand to fill that new space.

By stretching your muscles under specific conditions, you can actually stretch your fascia and give your muscles more room to grow.

The key to effective fascial stretching is the pump. The best time to stretch to expand the bags that are holding in your muscles is when your muscles are pumped up full of blood.

When your muscles are fully pumped up, they are pressing against the fascia. By stretching hard at that time, you increase that pressure on the fascia greatly, which can lead to expansion of the fascia.

One of the major reasons Arnold Schwarzenegger had such incredible chest development was that he finished his chest workouts with dumbell flyes, an exercise that emphasizes the stretched position of the pectoral muscles. He would pump his chest up full of blood during the workout then do flyes, holding the stretch at the bottom of the flye. This gave his chest room to grow to amazing proportions.

Fascial stretching is more rigorous than regular stretching but the results can be amazing. When you stretch hard enough to cause the fascia to expand, you will really feel it! When you are stretching the fascia, you should feel a powerful pulling sensation and pressure as the muscle works against the fascia to expand it.

Be sure you do not stretch so hard that you cause the muscle to tear or cause injury to yourself. You will rapidly learn to distinguish the difference between a good stretch and a bad stretch. You should not feel any sharp pain, just a steady pull.

Hold each stretch for at least 20 to 30 seconds as you must give your fascia time to be affected by the stretch. Stretch hard like this only when you have a fully pumped muscle as you must give your fascia a reason to expand. If your muscles arent pumped, just stretch normally.

You can find instructions for stretching at: http://www.fitstep.com/Library/Info/Stretching1.htm

One set of hard stretching after each set you do for a muscle group, besides the obvious benefits of increased flexibility, can have an incredible effect on the size of your muscles and their further ability to grow.

Nick Nilsson is Vice President of BetterU, Inc., an online exercise, fitness, and personal training company. Check out his latest eBook "The Best Exercises You've Never Heard Of" at http://www.thebestexercises.com or visit http://www.fitstep.com. You can contact him at betteru@fitstep.com or subscribe to BetterU News, his fitness newsletter at betterunews@fitstep.com.