Dynamic Stretching Can Be Key To Effective Working Out.
September 24, 2012 by admin
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Article by Joe Gardener
Dynamic Stretching Can Be Key To Effective Working Out. – Health
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If you are into fitness and working out you know that stretching can be a boring and tedious issue. And many people feel that stretching does not do anything, they feel it largely is a waste of time. That is why many people are beginning to switch to Dynamic stretching for their workout regime.
Dynamic stretching is stretching done with activity. For example, stretching your arms is done with full range of motion and exercise that warms up the muscle as well as giving it the chance to stretch. It is this muscle activity and warming up that makes dynamic stretching a big chance over traditional stretching.
We have all heard that warming up and stretching before you play a sport will prevent injuries. And in many cases stretching can be beneficial. There has been no study done to indicate that stretching without exercise will help give flexibility before performing an aerobic activity. In fact, there are a lot of different sets of data that show that stretching without muscle movement is largely worthless.
The key is to move the muscle, slowly at first, using full range of motion, and gently urging your muscles to stretch longer and longer at the same time they are warming up. Athletes are increasingly enjoying the new Dynamic stretching techniques, because it gives their muscles a warm up and the chance to stretch while exercising.
Dynamic stretching is the process of moving your body and slowly increasing speed, the range of motion and stretching movement, making the increases slow but steady. This gives your body the chance to get warm, stretch and move all at the same time.
When you are an athlete the first thing that you encounter when you step on the field to compete or to go for a run is the need for oxygen rich blood. Dynamic stretching does allow for this type of activity, and it supports the efforts to warm the muscle groups up as well as giving muscles support
The key to dynamic stretching is slow, repeated movements gradually increasing intensity and range of motion. As the muscle warms up, then you increase the repetitions and the range, and the intensity of the movement. Working together it provides a great deal of support for the muscle groups as well as giving a better set of stretches than traditional, static stretching does.
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Dynamic Stretching for Optimal Health
June 8, 2012 by admin
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Article by Jill Miller
Dynamic Stretching for Optimal Health – Health – Fitness
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Dynamic movement happens when the body keeps moving from one motion to the next without stopping. This type of action warms up the tissues of the body, improves circulation and prepares us for activity.
If you watch an animal when it wakes up, it progressively moves its body every which way, one motion tumbling into the next in a primal organic sequence. It also contracts its muscles while it is lengthening them to maximize the internal friction and hasten fluids back into the muscles, connective tissues and joints.
When we are still, we grow a kind of moss all over our musculature. This “inner moss” is fascia, an important connective tissue webbing that strings our body together. Sometimes this is helpful, for example in protecting a muscle that has been injured. However, fascia does not distinguish between an injured muscle and a “lazy” or underused muscle. It will just grow and continue to restrict movement unless it is regularly mobilized.
When we move our bodies fully, encouraging motion into every joint and muscle fiber in the body, we aid in loosening up adhesions that regularly grow between the sliding surfaces of muscles all over our body. When we dynamically stretch away our restrictions by breaking apart our tension areas, it’s like we’re performing physical therapy on ourselves!
The specialized fibers within our muscles that contract at a fast rate to maximize power and force need to be trained and turned on in order to make fast movements on the playing field or dance floor. Dynamic stretching has been proven to stimulate these responses within our muscles.
The opposite of dynamic stretching is static stretching. Static stretching implies that a body is at a still point and the muscles are held under consistent pressure for a duration of time. This is the ideal type of stretching after athletic output, as it calms the nervous system, resets and improves the resting length of muscles, and effectively rehydrates muscles and connective tissues so that you are less sore the next day.
If you play a sport with repetitive stress patterns, you should use static stretching afterwards to address these imbalances. For example, a golfer who is always twisting to one side can end up developing a patterned scoliosis in the spine if he or she doesn’t address the over-contracting on one side and the over-lengthening on the other, which is caused by the repeated abrupt rotations of their swing. This is also true for tennis players who tend to overuse their dominant side. Runners regularly suffer training imbalances from the repetition of their stride. Static stretching helps to reset their joints so that their stride actually improves for the next day’s run (after their dynamic stretches of course).
Incorporate dynamic stretching into your workout routine and enjoy optimal health and your favorite sports for years to come!
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Jill Miller is the creator of Yoga Tune Up
