Hi Gang! Here’s part 2 of the Warm-Up and Stretching series I’m writing about. Keeping it short and simple so that I don’t go into too much boring detail and keeping it somewhat interesting for you.

So, we learned in the previous blog, Warm Up Before Stretching, to warm up first. Now after our body temperature has been raised and our muscles, tendons and ligaments are warm it’s time to stretch.

Stretching and flexibility go hand in hand. And as the word basically describes itself, flexibility is the degree of movement that a joint can make. I’m envious of those people who are born with a large amount of flexibility but for the rest of us, we all tend to have a limited amount of flexibility which may even decrease over time. The joints themselves also determine the amount of flexibility we have, but we can improve things by stretching our muscles, tendons and ligaments. Basically there are two types of stretching, Static and Ballistic. For now, just focus on the Static stretching. Move your arm, leg or whatever as far as comfortably possible, and hold it in that stretched position for about 15 to 30 seconds. I have to emphasize here, don’t bounce your way to this point.  That could cause injury which is the sole thing your trying to prevent.  Ballistic stretching can be OK, but just not right now.

Do this for all parts of the body and you’ll put yourself on the road to improved performance in sports and daily activities. Keep this routine up and you may just be able to bend over and tie those shoelaces once again.  If not, then maybe we need to talk about that mid section and getting rid of that.

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