Stretching and Strength----Your Opinion ?
Interesting Read on Stretching and Injuries.
"One, a study being published this month in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, concluded that if you stretch before you lift weights, you may find yourself feeling weaker and wobblier than you expect during your workout. Those findings join those of another new study from Croatia, a bogglingly comprehensive re-analysis of data from earlier experiments that was published in The Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. Together, the studies augment a growing scientific consensus that pre-exercise stretching is generally unnecessary and likely counterproductive."
"(Subjects) ...are less powerful, with power being a measure of the muscle’s ability to produce force during contractions, according to Goran Markovic, a professor of kinesiology at the University of Zagreb and the study’s senior author. In Dr. Markovic and his colleagues’ re-analysis of past data, they determined that muscle power generally falls by about 2 percent after stretching."
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I usually FIRST do a total body warm up before hitting the weights and usually stretch between Sets...I don't know if this is right or not...BUT, i've been W/O for over 30 yrs...the last 10, i've been doing the warm up, stretch between sets routine.
Opinions-Thoughts?
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