Stretching Increases Power and Reduces Muscle Soreness

Stretching Increases Power and Reduces Muscle Soreness

Stretching is a simple and effective activity that helps to enhance athletic performance, decrease the likelihood of injury and minimize muscle soreness. 

Increased Power

By increasing our muscle length we are increasing the distance over which our muscles are able to contract. This results in a potential increase to our muscles power and therefore increases our athletic ability.  This will lead to an improvement in our balance or our ability to control our muscles.

Reduced Post Exercise Muscle Soreness

We have all experience what happens when we go for a run or to the gym for the first time in a few months. The following day our muscles are tight, sore, stiff and it is usually hard to even walk down a flight of stairs. This soreness that usually accompanies strenuous physical activity is often referred to as post exercise muscle soreness. This soreness is the result of micro tears, (small tears within the muscle fibers), blood pooling and accumulated waste products, such as lactic acid. Stretching, as part of an effective cool down, it helps alleviate the soreness by lengthening the individual muscle fibers; increasing blood circulation; and removing waste products.

Fitworks Corrective Therapy has been successful in helping clients improve their flexibility because of musculoskeletal imbalances. Give Fitworks Corrective Therapy a call today to get a free stretching session and discover how your flexibility is doing. 801-703-8503.

Gary Rumel, Corrective Therapist

Fitworks Corrective Therapy

www.fitworksutah.com

Source: The Anatomy of Stretching by Brad Walker