Why Stretching Before Lifting Weights Could Be Sabotaging Your Gains – Here’s What Science Really Says!
Back when I was just getting serious about weightlifting, there were several super swole personal trainers in the Bally Total Fitness system who rigorously advised me to stretch before doing any semblance of resistance work. Their rationale ranged from keeping the muscles loose, to extending the limbs to provide them with enough new places to form original muscle cells, to increasing the range of motion a muscle could be worked, to reducing the chance for injury.
Which is why it’s still sort of unbelievable to me that the attitude toward stretching as an acceptable pre-workout activity has completely flipped to the point where doing so prior to lifting weights is now almost universally regarded as terrible for you.
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