Stretching before you run

I have long believed that stretching was something that was very good to do before you did any exercise and I would do my best to pull on my muscles as hard as I could to make sure that I was very well stretched before I started to run or to do weights.

Well a few years ago when I tried to get serious about running one of the runners that I knew filled me in on the truth. You should nexer stretch until you are well warmed up.

Fitness Black Book, a great blog, has a comprehensive article today about whether you should stretch before or after your workout. With some great studys to back up what he says.

I will let you read it first.

Now that you are back I have to say that I like stretching for myself. I know that Rusty says that he hates it but my muscles always feel tight and throughout the day I find myself stretching. As for working out, before my heavy weights that I lift I do a set of every exercise slowly and methodically using very light weights so that my muscles are not cold when I get started.

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