Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Should You Stretch Before Or After An Exercise Session?

By David Jameson


Ideally, you need to do some stretching after your warm-up session, between your workout sets, and shortly after an exercise session session. In fact , pliability makes up one in three of balanced health and fitness programme, with strength coaching and cardio making up the other two thirds. Unfortunately, only a few folk really spend sufficient time on stretching exercises. Actually many exercisers skip stretching altogether, thinking that it's not that important. What you don't understand is you are doing your body a heavy disservice when you fail to stretch correctly.

You are essentially putting yourself at risk for muscle injury, limiting the range of motion of your muscles, and promoting muscle tenderness and stiffness.

Due to time restrictions, it is comprehensible that many individuals cannot perform stretches before, in-between, and after their workouts. If this is the case, then you can do away with stretching in-between sets. Nonthlesess, the seriousness of stretching shouldn't be overlooked in any Workout System.

you need to still make sure that you stretch shortly after warming up and cooling down. You need to commit at least ten minutes to your stretching exercises and make sure that you stretch all the muscles that you are going to be targeting for that exercise session. If some of your muscles remain a bit sore from your prior workout, then you may stretch those muscles also.

You should also remember that your workout sessions aren't the sole times you want to stretch. Actually you would do well to do some stretching numerous times during the day, especially if you've been standing or sitting for lengthened periods. These stretches do not have to be the same ones you do during your exercise sessions, naturally. They can be straightforward stretches aimed at taking away the kinks you normally get when you stay in one position for too much time. And if you might give an hour each week to stretching exercises (you might do Yoga poses), then your body is certain to reward you with larger range of motion, smoother movements, and a lot less morning stiffness.




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