Articles by Lynda Schwartz

How Long to Hold Stretches?

Published Aug,14 2017 | By Lynda Schwartz

Stretching elongates your muscles, increasing your flexibility. Increased flexibility gives you a wider range of motion between your joints. Gaining this added flexibility takes time.

How to Increase the Grip Rubber on Court Shoes

Published Jul,18 2017 | By Lynda Schwartz

Accelerating, stopping and sharply turning require traction between your shoe’s soles and the court. Covering the surface of a basketball court is a slurry of friction-reducing debris including dust, dirt and clothing fibers.

How to Keep a Ping-Pong Paddle Tacky

Published Jul,14 2013 | By Lynda Schwartz

Winning a game of table tennis requires more than quick reflexes -- you also have to control the ping-pong ball, and that takes good tack. Tack refers to the stickiness of the rubber covering both flat faces of the paddle.