Did you get stretching well before starting to exercise? Talk about stretching, most people assume that stretching before exercise is a very necessary thing. But apparently this assumption is wrong! Why? Check out more on this article below.
Stretching is great for reducing the risk of injury. But, doing it before you heat the muscle is a mistake. Precisely you will get injured while doing it. We say the muscle as a rubber band, if the rubber band in cold condition then stretched, then the rubber will easily break because of the lack of elasticity in it. But if the rubber is in a hot state, then rubber will be more elastic, so it can stretch perfectly.
Stretching is great for reducing the risk of injury. But, doing it before you heat the muscle is a mistake. Precisely you will get injured while doing it. We say the muscle as a rubber band, if the rubber band in cold condition then stretched, then the rubber will easily break because of the lack of elasticity in it. But if the rubber is in a hot state, then rubber will be more elastic, so it can stretch perfectly.
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Same with the muscles, when you stretch after you get warming up then do the main exercise, your muscle is still in a passive state, so that when you are doing to stretching, your muscle will hurt. But if done after warming up, your muscles are more ready, more flexible to moved and ready to do the main exercise. There are 3 different types of stretching that you can do after a warming up movement :
Three types of stretching that you can do :
Static stretching
It is a slowly stretching of the muscles, resulting in tension, pain and also discomfort in the muscles. The discomfort will be held for 20-25 seconds. The main purpose of doing static stretching is to improve and maintain flexibility.Ballistic stretching
This stretch is almost similar to calisthenics gymnastics, which is passive stretching with active motion. Characteristic from ballistic stretching is done actively with reflected motions. This means the same muscle movement and the same joint repeatedly. The goal is to increase body flexibility.Dynamic stretching
It is a stretching movement involving the muscles of the joints. The joint point becomes the base of movement this dynamic stretch. Movement is done slowly, smooth, not stomping and done in a controlled manner. The main purpose of doing this stretching is to maintain flexibility in joints, tendons, ligaments and muscles. The difference with static stretching is, this stretching is done actively as wide as the motion of the joints that is trained.
