To Stretch or Not to Stretch? The Answer Is Elastic
Good article from the NY Times:
www.nytimes.com/.../13Best.html
Excerpt:
The truth is that after dozens of studies and years of debate, no one really knows whether stretching helps, harms, or does anything in particular for performance or injury rates. Yet most athletes remain convinced that stretching helps, and recently more and more have felt a sort of social pressure to show that they are limber, in part due to the popularity of yoga. Flexibility has become another area where many athletes want to excel.
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oh yeah. definitely never stretch a "cold" muscle. Sorry if you got that from what I was geeking out on. You would definitely be asking for it then. Someone should have told my coaches that when i was little though. Ha.
The worst story I heard from stretching gone awry is from a world champion gymnast friend of mine. He said that as a child his coach would make him do the splits and physically stand on him until he got all the way down. Ouch!!!
oh yeah. definitely never stretch a "cold" muscle. Sorry if you got that from what I was geeking out on. You would definitely be asking for it then. Someone should have told my coaches that when i was little though. Ha.
The worst story I heard from stretching gone awry is from a world champion gymnast friend of mine. He said that as a child his coach would make him do the splits and physically stand on him until he got all the way down. Ouch!!!
