Hi!

Hi everyone, I've been meaning to post something on this forum for a while but instead I've just been lurking in the back ground.
Anyway I'd like to say keep up the good work you guy's are doing as this is something very worthwhile that people should know about.
I've been doing the 5T's for about 2 years now and have found them one of the single best set of exercises I've ever done, and they're something I can hold onto for life and I'm very keen to explore them further as I get older and begin to slow down on all the other highly strenuous activities that I currently undertake.
I'll try to give a very brief history of why I started them, I've actually had quite a bit of head and neck trauma in my short life so far, and was always going through periods where I struggled with back/neck pain and head aches and was a regular patient at the chiro. But now I'm glad to say that since I started the 5T's I'd say I'm at least 90% better and that's with my sport's getting rougher by the day (if I stopped them I'd have to say 100%) and I also haven't been to the chiro since, which I'd been going to see for at least the last 10 years prior (it actually feels quite weird not going).
I have a couple of questions for you guys, firstly I sometimes use them for a warm up before I exercise e.g. wrestling, weights, running etc. and to a lesser degree to warm down if I get time. Do you think they would work better as a warm up or a warm down? Or maybe I should focus on doing them for both?
Also when I first started them I actually got them out of a book, I think it was ‘wellbeing’, that I was reading at the chiropractors that they photocopied for me, in this one with the 1st rite they also listed a variation where you just twist from side to side with your arms out while keeping your feet still, I’ve always done around a dozen of these with the feet still then go on to do about another dozen full spins, it’s only since having the internet over the last 12 months that I’ve noticed this variation isn’t listed anywhere else, and from memory there were a couple of other variations for the other rites but I never did them, I think they were easier movements so that people could ease into the full ones, the thing is I’m addicted to this first one with the feet still, because most of the time when I do it during a few of the spins I can feel my back gently popping back into place. Does anyone have any comments on this?
Anyway thanks for your time and keep up the good work.
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