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wv, can't find the link to the study. That's quite interesting if it's the case though, that stretching doesn't prevent injuries.
When I used to dance, we'd always stretch before and after. One of my instructors (who also teaches pilates) taught us that you should never ever make a stretch hurt, you should always hold them for a minimum of 30s, and you should never 'bounce' your stretches. But that was also 15 years ago.Last edited by Cavernio; 09-5-2013, 07:09 AM.Comment
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Stretching is still good just as its own thing and not something you want to mix with other workouts.
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I mostly just warm up the muscles when I hit the gym, not stretching specifically. i.e. windmill my arms around to warm up shoulders before benching, curl some really light dumbbells before curling, do some body weight squats atg with some holds and hamstring stretches before squatting etc.
I don't see the point of excessive warmups/stretching routines though. They don't prevent injury and they don't improve flexibility.
If you want to improve flexibility quickly you should have a routine dedicated specifically to that, not as a warmup.
Back when I could do the splits with ease and kick above my head, grab my foot, hold it and bend it back behind myself pretty far...I did a lot of dedicated stretching. Most of it was part of my Taekwondo training but we did a lot of stretching exercises. Many classes were partially if not entirely dedicated to stretching. We would warm up and then move to various stretches and practice holding them and getting people to help us push ourselves further. To learn to kick high enough to grab my foot and hold it above my head, we used to get someone to push our legs up as far as we could handle it, hold it there for awhile and then slowly push it up a tiny bit further and then repeat. Worked really well.
Alas, much like muscles themselves, you lose flexibility if you don't use it. olo
I'm regaining a lot of it though through my weight lifting alone and simply using maximum ROM for my exercises. I can finally squat ATG comfortably now, 1.5+ years later, for example. I could never do that before. It was far too painful and I pulled ligaments even thinking about it.
In other news, I laughed http://www.cbc.ca/thisisthat/blog/20...cer/index.htmlLast edited by Reach; 09-5-2013, 02:03 PM.
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That article looks straight out of the fucking OnionI mostly just warm up the muscles when I hit the gym, not stretching specifically. i.e. windmill my arms around to warm up shoulders before benching, curl some really light dumbbells before curling, do some body weight squats atg with some holds and hamstring stretches before squatting etc.
I don't see the point of excessive warmups/stretching routines though. They don't prevent injury and they don't improve flexibility.
If you want to improve flexibility quickly you should have a routine dedicated specifically to that, not as a warmup.
Back when I could do the splits with ease and kick above my head, grab my foot, hold it and bend it back behind myself pretty far...I did a lot of dedicated stretching. Most of it was part of my Taekwondo training but we did a lot of stretching exercises. Many classes were partially if not entirely dedicated to stretching. We would warm up and then move to various stretches and practice holding them and getting people to help us push ourselves further. To learn to kick high enough to grab my foot and hold it above my head, we used to get someone to push our legs up as far as we could handle it, hold it there for awhile and then slowly push it up a tiny bit further and then repeat. Worked really well.
Alas, much like muscles themselves, you lose flexibility if you don't use it. olo
I'm regaining a lot of it though through my weight lifting alone and simply using maximum ROM for my exercises. I can finally squat ATG comfortably now, 1.5+ years later, for example. I could never do that before. It was far too painful and I pulled ligaments even thinking about it.
In other news, I laughed http://www.cbc.ca/thisisthat/blog/20...cer/index.htmlComment
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I can't stand things like that. Yes, sports are about competition...Comment
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The article is satire, This is That is a comedy showComment
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Yes it is satire.
But particularly good satire IMO. Sports have been dumbed down a lot for kids and it's starting to get out of hand in some places.
I went to my little cousin's baseball game a few months ago and was appalled at how it was run. It was dumbed down so much, there were no points, there were almost no rules, when adults got involved they always threw the game so that the kids would win and every kid got to win no matter what (couldn't hit the ball at the plate? it's ok, you get to walk a home run anyway
oh and you win a gold trophy at the end)
D:
Man my team sucked shit when I played hockey when I was little. I never won anything. Actually, I got a small participation trophy once. XDComment
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everything you call a 'warm-up' is known as dynamic stretching, and yes you should do it pre, static stretching post. how else you gonna develop full rom jobrahs?!?!?!?!
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It helps.
Did my competition, got smushed. When you're 6'1 and 210, going up against 5'8 guys and 250 (they merged heavy and super heavys, womp womp), you aint gonna win. :P Got like 8th, was fun!Comment
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And limited time only:
Edit: Time's up
Today at 212 lbs. Floating anywhere between 210-214 these days.Last edited by mnnicol; 09-22-2013, 06:36 PM.- Retired Stepman
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Extremely balanced and well developed from the front.
Back could come up quite a bit though.
Legs...!? A mystery 8)Comment
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