Streching is the most important thing you do in a gym. All to often its easy to forget about it and jump right into lifting hundreds of pounds. No wonder that shoulder or knee blew out!
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Streching is the most important thing you do in a gym. All to often its easy to forget about it and jump right into lifting hundreds of pounds. No wonder that shoulder or knee blew out!
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thanx for the heads up
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Stretching before lifting has been shown in some studies to actually increase the chance of injury. All the big exercise organizations state to do a proper warmup before lifting and doing the stretching after the exercise session is complete.
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Agree and if i agree we all know its true.Originally Posted by MuscleScience
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Or if you dont, we get made fun of with one of your funny pictures.....LOL
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This is what I do: some form of 5 min mild cardio to get the body warm at the start of the workout IF I'm feeling tight, then pretty much for every exercise I do a warmup set with about 50% the weight of the max I'm pyramiding up to. In that set I try to establish the mind-muscle connection and also try to get a full stretch of the fibers in question.
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this is true, u want to warm up the muscle and get blood to it, without stretching it. however, u can warm up multiple muscles before working on just 1 muscle that way your entire body is ready.
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Don't forget to bring a Towel!!
You never know when you might need a towel.
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you cant go wrong with a warm up stretch, isnt that like a staple?
warm stretching, warm up sets, then your actual lifting
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It was in the 1970"s
Vive Memor Leti
I never ever stretch...just warm up with lighter weights.
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