01/20/2022
Static Stretching
If you’re a runner, should you be doing these?
➡️It depends on WHY you are stretching.
✅If you are stretching because you are sore after a hard run, that’s great, gentle stretching will feel good and help reduce some of that soreness.
✅If you are stretching as part of your cool down routine, that’s great too. In fact, that’s a really good time to get the most out of your stretching.
✅If you are stretching because you need to improve mobility in a shortened muscle to help other muscles perform better, great, proceed!
🛑BUT….If you are stretching because you have a muscle that always ‘feels tight’, and you stretch, stretch, stretch and it still always feels tight, you probably don’t need to be stretching that muscle and what you likely need is STRENGTHENING.
That muscle that always feel tight despite always stretching, it could be overworking to compensate for someone else not doing their job due to weakness or inhibition.
For example: the hamstring. Do you feel like you constantly have to stretch your hamstring? Why does your HS always feel tight? Is it because your glutes are weak and HS are overcompensating? Are you in an anterior pelvic tilt and those HS are constantly being tugged on??
Static stretching isn’t always the answer to feel better but if you do:
Gentle hold,30-60 sec
No bouncing
Perform after you are warmed up
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