Hi Everyone:
Does anyone have any suggestions on increasing flexibility? It seems that everytime I start increasing the swimming and weights I loose flexibility. I've never been much into stretching, but I need it! Any good books or videos out there? How about Yoga?:rolleyes:
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Static stretching for me never worked out very well. I'm just not real flexible. But it hasn't hindered my performace and I have never had a sports related soft tissue injury. Maybe stretching to the point of being a yoga master is overrated. As mentioned above I do quick stretching, then a good warm up, then I do a real exercise specific stretch, followed by my workout. For swimming I do no stretching before the workout, UNLESS I'm doing an isometrics/swim workout. Even then I usually just do a warmup followed by the workout. Those days I save the stretch for afterwards, sometimes not. I guess my point is, do a longer warm up, see if it helps.
Static stretching for me never worked out very well. I'm just not real flexible. But it hasn't hindered my performace and I have never had a sports related soft tissue injury. Maybe stretching to the point of being a yoga master is overrated. As mentioned above I do quick stretching, then a good warm up, then I do a real exercise specific stretch, followed by my workout. For swimming I do no stretching before the workout, UNLESS I'm doing an isometrics/swim workout. Even then I usually just do a warmup followed by the workout. Those days I save the stretch for afterwards, sometimes not. I guess my point is, do a longer warm up, see if it helps.
