{"id":11103,"date":"2022-03-02T10:25:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T09:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/why-stretching-stretching-muscles-is-not-always-the-right-choice\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T12:51:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T10:51:58","slug":"why-stretching-stretching-muscles-is-not-always-the-right-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/why-stretching-stretching-muscles-is-not-always-the-right-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Why stretching\/stretching muscles is not always the right choice."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As trainers <\/a>, we often meet various types of clients who suffer from health problems, whether it is knees, spine or shoulders. The first thing that comes to mind for these pains is stretching or stretching. another form of stretching, such as yoga. It is a fairly popular method among regular exercisers who want to get rid of pain (especially in the back). In this blog, however, we will look at a few examples of why stretched and “relaxed” muscles are not always the optimal solution for eliminating pain.<\/p>\n\n

By constantly stretching the muscles, the muscles lose strength\nand tension. Proper and sufficient tension in the muscles is in terms of\nposture and mechanics of movement extremely important and can prevent\nunpleasant injuries. Our body needs to maintain its optimal length\nand tension in the muscles (or muscle twins) to move without\nthroes. This phenomenon is called a “length-tension relationship”. However, if there is one\nmuscle group overstretched, opposing muscles respectively. The antagonists will be\nprobably too stiff. A frequently seen phenomenon can be, for example, the shoulders\nsagging forward due to stretched interscapular muscles\n(sitting at the computer, frequent staring at the mobile phone) and subsequently downloaded\npectoral muscles. If the muscles on both sides of the body had the ideal tension and length,\nyour shoulders would be in a neutral position and you probably wouldn’t have to\nto deal with shoulder or neck pain.<\/p>\n\n

The first example is the “unintentional” stretching of important\nMuscles. If the muscle is too relaxed and cannot optimally “turn on” when\nmovement that he is primarily supposed to perform, the other muscles will probably do it for him,\nwhich should ideally only assist him with movement.\nAnd that’s when a problem arises and injuries occur. The most common\nAn example is the gluteal muscles, which are from prolonged sitting (e.g. sedentary\nprofessions) are relaxed, so they are not able to contract ideally (download\nand make the movement) and then have to work for them when moving\nthigh muscles (hamstrings). This, in turn, leads to overloading of the hamstrings, stretching\/tearing them,\nor even frequent pain in the lumbar spine. In this case,\nideal to find dysfunction as soon as possible and focus in particular on\nstrengthening the gluteal and deep abdominal muscles and trying to limit sedentary\nway of life, at least to some extent. Strengthening will restore lost tension to the muscles\nand they will be able to engage during the day while holding their body in neutral respectively.\nwhen jogging or other more complex movements.<\/p>\n\n

Another example is the “intentional” stretching of muscles, for example\nstretching or with the help of yoga. Personally, I have nothing against yoga, it has a lot of benefits,\nwhether physical or mental, but every exercise or exercise. an activity that has long been\nWe perform requires a certain level of compensation. Several elements, e.g. in yoga\nrequires staying in the extreme ranges for several tens of seconds.\nPersonally, I am inclined to think that extreme ranges of motion\nand hypermobility in the joints are more dangerous than beneficial, especially\nAs long as you can’t control them. Also important is the fact that most people have these\nIt simply does not need ranges to such a large extent. Extreme ranges\nin the joints and stretching the muscles in the extreme positions subsequently lead to\nto muscle instability in the body and pain. We can continue with the examples\nhind thigh muscles (hamstrings). Hamstrings are used in most complex exercises\nstretched probably the most during stretching or yoga, and by losing\noptimal tension, at the same time they lose the ability to hold the pelvis in neutral respectively.\nin a gentle “squat” (as well as the buttocks muscles). Thus, the pelvis is\ntilted forward, which subsequently continues with hyperlordosis of the lumbar spine\n(back pain) followed by hyperkyphosis of the thoracic spine (dropped shoulders\nforward \u2013 shoulder and neck pain). In this case, too, it is high\nRecommended proper strength training to help keep the body pain-free.<\/p>\n\n

Every action provokes a reaction. This rule applies in particular\nabout a body that is connected from head to toe and it is quite common that\nA sprained ankle can result in e.g. misalignment of the jaw, the so-called crossbite. Thereby\nthat we will constantly stretch our muscles will in the vast majority of cases do more harm\nhow we help. By doing static stretching, we probably won’t help ourselves either\nin the warm-up before training or in the prevention of injuries. Of course, they are\nindividual cases where the given methods will help (very shortened muscles\nand highly limited ranges of motion). However, as far as most people are concerned, the most ideal\nThe way to prevent pain is to properly set up strength training in full\nrange of motion, under the supervision of an experienced trainer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As trainers , we often meet various types of clients who suffer from health problems, whether it is knees, spine or shoulders. The first thing that comes to mind for these pains is stretching or stretching. another form of stretching, such as yoga. It is a fairly popular method among regular exercisers who want to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":10899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}