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Re: What is the Best Strecthing to do?
Actually if your talking about stretching for more flexability it is a bad idea to try and accomplish this during class. It is my understanding that intense 'stretching' for a warmup has more negative effects than positive. That the stretching of muscle, tendon, and sinew has much the same effect as exercizing the muscles for strength that is creating tares and injuries to be rebuilt, however it seems that your tendons and sinew don't have that much tolerance for abuse so trying to stretch for flexability before training will result in an increased chance of injury. Instead a warmup should be just what the name implies, activating the muscles and moving things around a bit just get the blood flowing so to speak. If you want to become more flexible the best time to do this is after risk of injury has past for the day. One experienced martial artist I met said the best stretch training took place before bed and after a warm bath. Whatever you do, do it slowly.
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