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Re: Taking the pain out of homebuilding

Yoga is great for carpenters and everyone else.
Two things I wanted to share with your readers(as a licensed yoga instructor):
(1) Take your tool belt off before you start stretches! Probably the stuff on one side doesn't weigh what the stuff on the other side weighs, and the assymetry will skew the benefit you could get out of the stretches. Also, you don't want anything to slip out and bonk you one as you are stretching.
(2) Standing poses are okay to do with boots on, but your feet and ankles need stretching too. Perhaps at rest breaks or before lunch... I haven't seen the book yet, but I hope that the author advises taking off those stiff boots and doing rotations and stretches.

Namaste, annbd