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Benefits of Stretching Before Exercise
I remember that – even though in high school – I was taught to always stretch before exercise. This was the case of fitness classes and basketball practices and games. All the students knew the routine. Align the arm length away. Count. Even numbers, one step back and four steps are stored behind the front.
The practice of stretching before exercise continued throughout my life – especially as I got older. Before walking or running, or playing a game of pickup basketball at the YMCA, which has always extended to 5 or 6 minutes to warm up my muscles, and should avoid a serious injury like a muscle tear or pull.
But guess what? Now they have found that stretching before exercise does not prevent injuries, according to a study presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. In the study, two groups of runners were used. One group was classified as a section group, and the other as a nonprofit group that stretch. Nearly three thousand people participated in this study. Riders in the test group extended the major muscles in the legs of 3 to 5 minutes. The other group was not prolonged.
Stretching Importance
Stretching an important activity to preserve the flexibility that gives you the ability to move without injury of joints, with age and tendons that connect the muscles and bones begin to shorter and narrower, which limits flexibility, and affect the movement so that it is less rapid, and find great difficulty in standing and walking step, respectively, and become shorter. But if you practice some of the activities such as stretching and stretch rear thigh, hip and calf muscle this will have a good effect on the flexibility of your own.
Flexibility is important for a good position, which affects the way how your body when you wake up, for example if you have a short and tight muscles in the neck and then will head angle. If you have narrow shoulders and chest, then shoulders folded inward.