Stretching

James M Sandbrook

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If you hard-stretch cold muscle you can get painful cramps.
I remember rugby league training and while we were all stretching and starting out a young guy f=got the cramps and had to be taken away in an ambulance.

Seeing that made me more cautious, the guy was in a lot of pain.

Stretching and cramps.

I knew a woman who was told by a sports instructor to stretch before exercise, and the woman did and cot bad cramps. She mentioned it to me and I said that if she stretched before her muscles were warm she was making cold muscle move when it would move easier if it were warm first.

My advice was to walk a while just to get the muscles gently moving, then warmer, and then stretch.

You may notice that many cyclists ride in a very easy gear at the start of their ride and that is to get the muscles warm before they really get into proper muscle movement.

So what I am saying is that there is no harm at all to warming up by gentle exercise and then stretching and then a more vigorous exercise.

I tend to do a lot of stretching my legs while cycling and doing other exercises.

With stretching I tend to “go with the stretch” and the moment it feels uncomfortable or painful I relax.

All the best from

James M Sandbrook.

18th of February, 2021.

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