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Dynamic before, good long stretch after (mainly because it feels good). Stretching to increase flexibility is also a little misleading, everyone at every age is
by marcuspovey 14y ago
Dynamic before, good long stretch after (mainly because it feels good). Stretching to increase flexibility is also a little misleading, everyone at every age is flexible, but we have inbuilt safeguards where our brain sets a maximum range of movement and tells the muscles to restrict movement beyond that. When you stretch to increase flexibility what you're actually doing is resetting the brain's idea of what's normal rather than stretching muscles or tendons.
- Charlesmigli 14y agoYes that's indeed the conclusion of the article that one should prefer dynamic warm up instead of static stretching. For long efforts it says that post stretching help to recover (The other takeaways of the article can be found here https://tldr.io/tldrs/515d3491207be0f11e0007bf/reasons-not-to-stretch https://tldr.io/tldrs/515d3491207be0f11e0007bf/reasons-not-t...)