Stretching/Flexibility

How to Stretch for Improved Flexibility -- Movement is the essence of life; balance is the essence of movement; a lack of flexibility takes you out of balance. The moral of the story is simple; your mobility and postural stability rely, in large part, on your flexibility.
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Stretch for Fitness Success -- When you think of developing a strong, muscular physique what type of exercises do you think of doing? To improve and develop strength most individuals focus on lifting weights – exercises such as bench press, push ups and flies – that focus on powerful pushing and pulling movements.
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Active Isolated-Stretching: A Flexibility System -- Active Isolated-Stretching (AIS) is a flexibility system that involves working one muscle at a time. By actively contracting muscles opposite of the targeted muscle, Active Isolated-Stretching (AIS) automatically relaxes specific muscle in preparation of its stretch. Active Isolated-Stretching (AIS) is performed by gentle and quick stretches, and releases the muscle before it has a chance to protectively contract.
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Avoid Injury or Fainting with a Proper Warm-up and Cool-down -- You must prepare your body before taking part in physical training, sports competition, or vigorous physical activity. A warm-up may help prevent injuries and maximize performance.
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Should You Really Stretch? -- Short answer is YES!! You should definitely stretch before, during and after a workout. Heck, do some stretch exercises during the rest of the day, too. Stretching increases flexibility. Stretching reduces tension. Stretching helps in injury prevention, alleviates your tight joints, and helps you get more out of your exercise regime. So yes, stretch!
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Physical Fitness Flexibility Training -- Becoming flexible involves maximizing your range of motion and stability. Flexibility training helps to increase blood flow and it also reduces the risk of potential injuries. There are three traditional stretching exercises that will help improve flexibility: static, dynamic, and isometric/PNF. These techniques should be incorporated into your workout routine.
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There is No Such Thing as a Good or Bad Stretch -- Over the last few months my inbox has been flooded with concerns about which stretches are good and which stretches are bad. In all cases someone has told the inquirer that they shouldn't do this stretch or that stretch, or that this is a good stretch and this is a bad stretch.
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Importance of Flexibility Training -- Weight training can result in an increase or a decrease in flexibility. It all depends on the exercises that are done, the amount of weight that is used, the range of motion executed, and what post workout procedures are taken.
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Best Stretching Exercises for Flexibility -- Millions of people suffer from muscle tightness, lower back ache and general stiffness. A series of simple, full body, stretching exercises can cure a tight lower back, relieve physical and mental stress, loosen up stiff legs and improve full body flexibility.
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Stretching and Strengthening: Find Out How to Balance Your Body -- I recently read in the GQ Magazine an article on stretching written by a London celebrity trainer. He basically wrote that stretching is a waste of time and in some cases dangerous. This was a response to recent research suggesting that stretching was unhealthy.
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