Free stretching exercises for your whole body
Stretching exercises to improve your range of motion, workout harder with reduced risk of injury, stretching is very overlooked in exercise If you want to achieve your best, then stretching should not be neglected, as well as reducing the risk of injury, it will improve your ability to move. Other benefits Improved circulationReduce muscle sorenessHelps to release lactic acid and toxins from the musclesStretching too far can cause injury, during your stretching sessions you will feel discomfort, this is normal but if you go beyond this discomfort and you start to feel pain you must stop, you're at risk from over stretching and injuring yourself. | Warm up before stretching |
When your muscles are cold they are not as flexible and trying to stretch them in this condition could cause a muscle pull. For more info on warming up click here. Protagonistic muscles allow motion to happen Antagonistic muscles limit our flexibility | The four major stretching elements |
Muscle - Muscle tissue itself is stretchy, but it has its limits, when muscle is stretched beyond its ability, muscle tears happen and they can take six months or longer to recover from.Tendons - Connects muscle tissue and muscle to bone.Ligaments - Connects bone to bone.Joints - The range of motion of your joints can be improved by stretching.| Stretching exercises for each muscle |
Hamstring stretchesThigh stretchesInner thigh/Adductor stretchesDeltoid / Shoulder stretchesPectoral / Chest stretchesTricep stretchesUpper back stretchesLower back stretchesComplete leg stretchesCalf stretchesHip stretchesNeck stretches
| Different types of stretching |
Ballistic - This involves sudden bursts of movement not actual stretching of musclesStatic Active - Requires effort to hold your body in a particular positionStatic Passive - Passive is just using your body weight to stretchDynamic - This is just completing a range of motion of a joint
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