So muscle men don't stretch, does that mean stretching is useless?
In fact, many people misunderstand the role of stretching.
Stretching cannot relieve muscle pain.
Many people do stretching exercises because their muscles are sore after exercise, so they do stretching exercises to try to relieve the pain.
But in fact, stretching can't relieve muscle soreness.
There are two kinds of muscle soreness, one is the soreness caused by lactic acid accumulation, which can be relieved by stretching.
But actually stretching is not as good as walking on the treadmill for a few minutes.
Moreover, the accumulation of lactic acid, except for the legs, eased itself in half an hour, and it doesn't matter whether it is stretched or not.
The most uncomfortable thing for us is the delayed pain.
This kind of pain comes from muscles and nerves, and stretching is aimed at fascia, so sometimes the more you stretch, the more painful it will be the next day.
In fact, if you want to relieve muscle aches, it is better to practice the next day.
For example, if the leg is sore, practicing squatting against the wall for five or six minutes the next day is better than stretching.
Stretching can't help exercise muscles.
One idea is to rely on stretching to help exercise muscles.
Because stretching is aimed at fascia, it can expand our fascia and make muscle growth unrestricted by fascia.
In fact, there is such a thing that I thought so at first, and that is Xilong.
Many drug players will inject sisolone into the muscle to try to open the fascia and make the muscle grow better.
But the truth is, I can't.
Because your muscles grow slowly, even if the fascia is slack, your muscles can't keep up.
Even if you don't stretch and your muscles grow, you will still spread the fascia like bamboo shoots.
So stretching doesn't help to exercise muscles.
But stretching can relax muscles and correct posture.
One of the main benefits of stretching is that it can improve the range of motion of our joints and relax our muscles.
Then this feature can be used in two ways.
First of all, a little stretching before training can warm up the muscles.
The range of activities is larger and the movements are more standardized.
But it should be noted here that the stretching range is too large, the tensile strength is too large, and the stretching time is too long, which is not conducive to strength training.
There is nothing you can do.
The second advantage is to correct your posture.
For example, players with torticollis, because the scalene muscles are tense, can correct torticollis, so they often stretch the tense scalene muscles.
For example, players with tilted pelvis often stretch the iliopsoas muscle to make the pelvic position more neutral.
In strength training, posture problems will inevitably appear. You need to do stretching training for a long time, otherwise your posture may get worse and worse.
This is the real function of stretching, and that is to correct posture.
So finally, what should I do to stretch? Many people may still stretch where they are practicing, but this is actually a psychological comfort.
It's not necessary.
You should find your own physical weakness, and then stretch the corresponding muscles every day, so as to give full play to the role of stretching.