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So you’re stretching during your warm up…but how long should you hold the stretch? It depends…let me explain.👇🏼
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When you stretch a muscle, tension is placed on the small fibers that make up the muscle in an attempt to lengthen them. Research has shown that stretching for longer than 1 minute will decrease the muscle’s ability to produce force, power and muscular endurance directly after for upwards of 30 minutes sometimes.🤯
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This means if you’re getting ready to lift big weight, most should limit any stretching you do to under 30 seconds.✅
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However, there’s always an “it depends,” For example, if you do have an extreme mobility restrictions for your goal like catching a deep clean. In this situation long duration stretches may still be desirable as the more improved range of motion may allow you to get into even better technical positions once you pick up the barbell, outweighing the short term decreases in performance.🏋🏼‍♀️
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It’s not always black & white…there’s often a good amount of “it depends…” ✅
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For my exercise science nerds like myself out there 🤓that want to see the research behind this – check out the blog article linked in my bio📲
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Shout out to @3d4medical with the Complete Anatomy app for the visual of the body & @89kevingonzalez for being today’s athlete model🙏🏼
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November 04, 2019 at 03:39PM

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