Flexibility training reduces your risk of injury as it helps to maintain your joints, including your ligaments and tendons and improves your posture.
Not exact matches
With more and more people around the world turning to resistance
training to help them increase strength,
flexibility, increase lean body mass and
reduce body fat.
Improving
flexibility will increase athletic potential,
reduce injury, and speed recovery from
training.
Many people, regardless of age, fear that the effects of continuous weight
training might
reduce their mobility and
flexibility, leading to decreased joint and connective tissue health over time.
The improvement in your exercises such as the full hanging leg raise and sports alone are enough to justify its inclusion in your exercise routine but when you combine these benefits with the other pluses such as a
reduced risk of injury, a reduction in the pain caused by lactic acid build up, better posture and a return of the grace of movement you had as a youth then
flexibility training is an absolute must.
It is also true that after static passive stretching your coordination is temporarily
reduced, your heart rate and respiratory system slows down (The complete opposite of what you want your warm up to achieve) and instead of increasing your readiness for physical exertion this type of
flexibility training is more likely to make you feel sleepy which is why it should be used as part of a cool down.