Passive stretching before a workout can impair performance by requiring the body to reconcile stored motor patterns with increased range of motion. — Whalespan
Passive stretching before a workout can impair performance by requiring the body to reconcile stored motor patterns with increased range of motion.
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“So when we can sort of take the breaks off and allow that muscle to allow us more range of motion, we're inherently increasing flexibility without necessarily having to increase the length of that muscle. That is usually done at a time far away from your workout, because they have shown where this type of stretching done prior to an activity, and it could be like a structured activity like lifting, or it could be a little bit less structured, like competing in a sport in a spontaneous type way, that there is a period of recalibration that is needed after doing this, because you're disrupting the length tension relationship of the muscle that causes you to not necessarily be able to rely on these, I've talked about before, stored motor engrams in your mind in terms of, this is the pattern for how I swing a golf club, say.”
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“And now introducing a little bit of flexibility, or added flexibility, or range, because of the stretching I did before, it takes maybe a whole or two or three to match up again.”