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7 Secrets of Stretching

There are a number of precautionary measures and tips to serve as guidelines when doing exercises. 

Before exercise, you must do a warm-up and stretching exercises to prevent accidents or to enhance the output during the training.  Here are 7 Secrets of Stretching.

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Increase your flexibility to avoid injuries, stretch before and after workouts.

Almost everyone knows that stretching before workout prevents injuries during the exercises, but only a few people seem to know that stretching after a work out restores flexibility. This helps to reduce stiffness.

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While holding your position for 8 to 12 seconds is enough for warm ups, holding each position for at least 16 seconds after exercise will restore flexibility.

Three-
Workout only for your level and not that of others.  Do not force yourself to do exercises that you are not yet capable of just because there are people who can do it.  Increase your limits slowly.  Listen to your body.  There are days when your body may be too tired that you may have to consider reducing your range of motion.

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Stretch regularly to continually increase your range of movements and your level of flexibility and strength. Do not go into a stretching position then immediately return to the relaxed position, and do it repeatedly.  This is more appropriately termed as bouncing or ballistic stretching while in a position. 

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Make sure that you have stretched or warmed up all muscle groups. Stretching the neck muscles can be as simple as placing the palm of one’s hand against the front of the head and pushing it.  Then, do the same to the sides and the back of the head.

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Also, it is advisable that you do not work the same muscle groups consecutively for two days.  The muscles grow during the period when you rest and not when you are working out.

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Do aerobic exercises to strengthen your heart.  Aerobic exercises can be anything that increases the heart rate safely for a sustained period of time. This includes exercises like, power walking, skipping, running or swimming.

Stretching is an important part of training and weight loss and if you skip gently stretching you can almost certainly kiss your chances of staying with the program goodbye.

It may seem to slow things down, but in truth it helps to speed up your results and that’s what you really want, RESULTS!

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