Most people think that stretching should be done in the period before the exercise. In fact, when the best time to be reaching out to the type of exercise can be differentiated.
For physical activity, stretching exercises should be done after your weight lifting. Why? This does not mean, should not you stretch before lifting weights, weight lifting requires a maximum contraction. Way before you relaxes the muscle and loses their ability to stretch maximum contract term. In addition, the stretching after lifting weights to increase blood flow and oxygenation may improve the pain can be minimized done.
For the year as a dynamic aerobics, stretching should be in advance in order to avoid injury from sudden movements and require flexibility to be performed.
For moderate exercise like brisk walking or cycling, you can always was, both before and during breaks or after a workout stretch.
That is it must be borne in mind that if you stretch the muscles are not in a rigid state. A good time to stretch after sufficient warming. Pumped to be in a warm place (heating) before spreading to the blood flow in the body. As on the site for 5-10 minutes for the first time as a warm-up prior to stretching, so you can maximize the benefits of stretching.
What is stretching?
Stretching techniques have been used for years in order to avoid injury and muscle fatigue. Basically, it’s enough work to distribute oxygen to all parts of the muscle to the relaxation of the muscles faster. Extending a common mechanism of relaxation techniques and massage of the back muscle fibers that are rigid.
It extends the muscle mass or increase the oxygen supply to the process of air exchange in the cell and stimulates the functioning of the lymphatic system. Furthermore, stretching of muscles improves posture and prevents us from a variety of musculoskeletal pain, often in the neck, shoulders and back and even prevents headaches and digestive disorders.
Why stretch needed?
Stretching is one of the components of the balance of any sport. Do not stretch more easily injured and flexibility of their movements would be reduced. Stretching also helps relax the muscles of stress, improve athletic performance at the center. If we do not straighten the joint movement so that by taking certain movements, which limits suddenly and requires agility, such as running or jumping, the factor of injury to joints or muscles even more. Reduction in combination with strength training, stretching helps muscle tension that occurs, so that delayed or muscle pain commonly called cathedral (stiffness) can be minimized.