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SPORTS MEDICINE :
PHYSICAL EXERCISE AND FITNESS: STRETCHING EXERCISES:
The Right Reasons to Stretch Before Exercise
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The Right Reasons to Stretch Before Exercise
November 16, 2011, 12:01 am
The Right Reasons to Stretch Before Exercise
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
Well
New York Times
Health
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/
the-right-reasons-to-stretch-before-exercise/
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/7v3qxfe
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For an article being published in next months issue of The British Journal
of Sports Medicine, researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia
reviewed dozens of recent studies of stretching, hoping to determine
whether the practice prevents people from getting sore after they
exercise. The authors found 12 studies completed in the past 25 years that
looked directly at that issue. Most were small and short-term. But each
produced essentially the same result, the review authors write, showing
that stretching does not produce important reductions in muscle soreness
in the days following exercise.
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That does not mean that you shouldnt stretch, the studys authors add, but
it does indicate that stretching may not provide the benefits that many of
us expect.
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Write about fitness, and you soon learn that stretching is one of the more
contentious and emotional issues among people who exercise. Those who
regularly stretch tend to assume that the practice will prevent soreness
and injury. Those who do not stretch frequently claim, with equal fervor,
that stretching is a waste of time.
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A slowly growing body of science suggests that each group has some
evidence backing it up, although reliable information about stretching
remains hard to come by, in part because stretching is difficult to study.
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Most of us, when we talk about stretching, mean the practice of assuming a
pose, like bending over to touch our toes or leaning against a wall to
stretch our hamstring muscles, and holding that position until the
stretching feels uncomfortable, usually 30 seconds or so. This routine is
known as static stretching, and its widely practiced by people before or
after many types of activities. In one of the studies included in the new
review, about 54 percent of the 2,377 active adult participants said that
they regularly performed static stretching, and most added that they
stretched in large part to avoid muscle soreness.
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But in that study, which was conducted by Robert D. Herbert, a professor
at the George Institute for Global Health at the University of Sydney, who
also wrote the comprehensive review, the rates of reported muscle soreness
were similar regardless of whether the volunteers completed a standard
15-minute program of static stretching. About 32 percent of those who
didnt stretch reported sore muscles the day after a workout. About 25
percent of those who had stretched reported the same.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Temple University
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