How to Get Warmed Up Before a Workout
For most people, athlete or not, stretching is something that you’ve heard the benefits of. Increased flexibility, range of motion, and lower chance of injury are all important in the world of fitness, which are all things stretching can provide. What is relatively unknown however, is that there are two types of stretching, dynamic and active, and that doing one before the other may actually be harmful to your health rather than beneficial.
Dynamic stretching, the more unknown of the two, encourages active movement, rotating your joints through their full range of motion and engaging your muscles by moving and stretching at the same time. This type of stretch is encouraged to be used before an athletic event or workout since these types of movements increase muscle temperature and decrease muscle stiffness. Oppositely static stretching requires you to stay in place, moving a muscle as far as you can go and then holding it for anywhere between fifteen seconds and a minute. These stretches are to be repeated, about two or three times, and aim to improve your flexibility. Static stretching is more beneficial post-workout since they prevent injury but limit the muscles ability to perform at its peak potential. A form of static stretching that we offer here is Spinal Stretching. Our service decompresses the spinal discs, changing the force and pressure along your spine, something that can be very beneficial following a hard workout. Book with us today!