If you are a beginner to working out and the whole fitness world, you may be one of those people who just cannot comprehend the time you have to spend on stretching exercises before the work out sessions. Well, let us sit you down and tell you about the importance of stretching before exercise, since it is crucial for your overall fitness experience and health in general. There are researched and proved medical reasons supporting the stretching moves before a workout. This article will guide you through the basics.
First of all, the aim of stretching is not shaping up your abs or bulging up your biceps as it is in other exercises in your routine. Stretching helps your workout routine to be more efficient. It makes your body more flexible and makes it easy for you to follow your workout without damaging your muscles. Stretching before exercise makes your body more pliable. This leads to fewer injuries. A pre-stretched muscle resists stress more than a muscled that is tightened.
Apart from the known benefits as the ones mentioned above, there are added benefits of investing your time on a good stretching session before the workout. It helps you to reduce the pain of muscles that can occur through heavy exercise. It strengthens your back bone and reduces the possibility for it to get injured. It prepares for your body for the pressure that comes with the work outs and helps your body to endure the thrusts given by the exercises and give better results faster. Moreover, it can help you to decrease pain and cramps in your menstruation period as well. Stretching helps a good circulation of blood to your skin and eventually can help increasing the elasticity of your skin which will give you a glow and a youthful appearance.
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This been said, there are some important warnings that you need to know when it comes to stretching. If you are suffering from osteoporosis, if you have had a recent bone fracture or a spine injury you should be careful about the pre-exercise of stretching. If you are experiencing pain when a muscle is moved or stretched, make sure that you meet a doctor before you go through your workout again. If you are healthy person who is excited about starting working out, start stretching before exercise starting from today itself!
