NYtimes.com has a very good article posted called, Stretching: The Truth.
“The old presumption that holding a stretch for 20 to 30 seconds — known as static stretching — primes muscles for a workout is dead wrong. It actually weakens them.” Check out the article as it’s a quick read and challenges old paradigms of stretching that still exist today.
Here’s a link the to the VIDEO »
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