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Tuesday, April 11. 2023

For people who exercise, what does stretching do, if anything?

I'm not much of a stretcher except before heavy lifts. What good does it do?



Posted by Bird Dog in Physical Fitness at 13:01 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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I'm 60'ish and do an hour plus weight workout 5 to 7 times a week. All of my workout pains and injuries have come from stretching. I start with a rigorous 15 minutes on the elliptical. It warms up a broad range of muscles and joints for my weights workout. I've never had any issues. I do warm down stretching my upper arms, legs and back in a nice long hot shower after a whirlpool, though.
#1 DanJ1 (Link) on 2023-04-12 07:53 (Reply)
I was a distance runner in school. My track teammates that were sprinters were always stretching. Yet they regularly seemed to have pulled muscles. I get that they were asking for much more explosive effort than us slow plodders were, but it always made me question stretching's true value.
It would be good to see a study that compared various athlete's flexibility with their injury history
#2 b k on 2023-04-12 12:23 (Reply)
Why do I keep getting a "This site can’t be reached. The connection was reset." error message when I try to post a comment with a link?
#3 RJP on 2023-04-12 18:55 (Reply)
I have no idea
#3.1 Bird Dog on 2023-04-13 08:35 (Reply)

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