You can stretch anytime, anywhere but proper technique is the key. Just follow these tips to do it safely to your benefit!
Stretching is a human activity used by athletes, older adults, rehabilitation patients, and anyone participating in a fitness program.
You must know why stretching is important
Stretching makes the muscle flexible, strong and healthy. We need that flexibility to maintain a range of motion in the joints.
Regular stretching keeps the muscle long, lean and flexible. Healthy muscles also help some of the persons with balance problems, to avoid falls.
Benefits of Stretching
Stretching can help improve flexibility and consequently, the range of motion of your joints.
- Improves your performance in physical activities.
- Decreases your risk of injuries.
- Enables your muscles to work most effectively.
- Increases blood flow to your muscle.
- Heals and prevents back pain.
- Is great for stress relief.
- Calms your mind.
- Helps to decrease tension headaches.
- It also helps to increase blood flow to the muscle.
What is the best time to stretch?
After exercise is a great time to stretch.
Everyone is more flexible after exercise, because you have increased the circulation to those muscles and joints and you have been moving them.
If you do static stretches you will get the most benefit from them now.
After you go for a run before weight training , you walk around a little too to cool down. Then, you do some stretching.
It's a nice way to end a workout.
Benefits of stretching after a workout
- Greater flexibility
- Stretching can help increase the flexibility of your joints.
- Having greater flexibility helps you move around, more easily.
- Better posture and back pain relief
- Tense muscles can lead to poor posture
- When you sit or stand incorrectly, you often put extra pressure and strain your muscle.
- Less muscle tension and lowers stress
- Stretching muscles that feel tense and tight can help relax them.
- In turn, this may help lower your stress levels and help you feel calmer.
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