One of Dara Torres’ secrets for staying in shape and still competing vigorously at the age of 41 is to keep herself loose and injured-free. Dara not only hires two stretchers who help her stretch after every training session, but she also does resistance-stretch (video can be seen on the left side of the article) on her own.

Resistance-stretch helps Dara shorten her muscles more completely; more shortened muscles create greater power and speed to help Dara dominate 50-meter freestyle, her main event, in the world once again.

With a lot of room for improvement in any sport, guess what the Guinea Pig will be doing tonight before going to bed?