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Do stretches really help your fitness and health?

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Though I exercise, I have only heard of stretching as a fitness exercise recently, and I’d be interested to know what effects it has on health.

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Do stretches really help your fitness and health? - Written by health life

March 5th, 2010 at 9:28 am

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  1. when i stretch in the mornings and before and after workouts, i feel more refreshed and more relaxed. i don’t know how to medically describe the effects of stretching, but i do know that it prevents you from pulling a muscle.

    dorkymiyazawa

    5 Mar 10 at 9:55 am

  2. They completely help. Especially when incorporating deep breathing. Stretching helps strengthen your cardiovascular system by causing blood to be pumped through your body. It also helps combat a lot of problems people face such as stress, fatigue, sore joints/muscles/backs. Get a good stretching/yoga book for beginners or the novice. You will see a big difference in your energy levels and workouts.
    Plus, if done in a peaceful setting, it can be very calming/grounding. Good for clearing the head of the daily stresses.

    Eddie C

    5 Mar 10 at 10:50 am

  3. Yes, it is quite healthy.

    back from the dead

    5 Mar 10 at 11:24 am

  4. That is all false, there was a study at UCLA that proved that stretching before exercises did NOT prevent pulls/tears/etc. We gain absolutely no benefit from stretching before exercising.

    biaraptor

    5 Mar 10 at 11:26 am

  5. I wouldn’t consider stretching an exercise, but I would consider it vital for health. When working out you cause the muscle to strengthen. . . but also shorten. Muscles are attached to bone and when they shorten they pull on the bone. Stretching after exercise can keep muscles from pulling a bone even an eighth of an inch out of place. If your talking a muscle connected to your vertebra then your talking back pain.

    Fitnesstrainer

    5 Mar 10 at 12:22 pm

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