Do stretches really help your fitness and health?
Posted by admin on Jun 9, 2008 in Diet Fitness |
jenesuispasunnombre asked:
Though I exercise, I have only heard of stretching as a fitness exercise recently, and I’d be interested to know what effects it has on health.
Health and Fitness
Though I exercise, I have only heard of stretching as a fitness exercise recently, and I’d be interested to know what effects it has on health.
Health and Fitness
when i stretch in the mornings and before and after workouts, i feel more refreshed and more relaxed. i don’t know how to medically describe the effects of stretching, but i do know that it prevents you from pulling a muscle.
They completely help. Especially when incorporating deep breathing. Stretching helps strengthen your cardiovascular system by causing blood to be pumped through your body. It also helps combat a lot of problems people face such as stress, fatigue, sore joints/muscles/backs. Get a good stretching/yoga book for beginners or the novice. You will see a big difference in your energy levels and workouts.
Plus, if done in a peaceful setting, it can be very calming/grounding. Good for clearing the head of the daily stresses.
Yes, it is quite healthy.
That is all false, there was a study at UCLA that proved that stretching before exercises did NOT prevent pulls/tears/etc. We gain absolutely no benefit from stretching before exercising.
I wouldn’t consider stretching an exercise, but I would consider it vital for health. When working out you cause the muscle to strengthen…but also shorten. Muscles are attached to bone and when they shorten they pull on the bone. Stretching after exercise can keep muscles from pulling a bone even an eighth of an inch out of place. If your talking a muscle connected to your vertebra then your talking back pain.