One of these days I'm hoping to do some posts on how much I've improved from stretching, but not today. I overdid some new stretches yesterday and my shoulders are tight and hands are swollen. Unfortunately, that's how it's been from the start of my stretching journey. There's many ups and downs, it's not a steady uphill climb.

Most of last year I felt worse. It wasn't until the last couple months that I've started to see some big improvements in some areas. I'm constantly playing around feeling for tight areas and figuring ways to stretch them. It's usually when I try something new that I flare up but that's how I learn. There's no way around that, that I know of. It takes so much patience and persistence and can be very frustrating and discouraging at times.