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Lead Stories: Thursday, August 28, 2008

When Should You Stretch?

Posted October 16th, 2007 at 3:16 PM by Shannon Clark

Section: Health & Fitness, Exercise

You likely already know that any good workout program should involve some stretching activity in one form or another. Increased flexibility has a variety of advantages, from a reduced risk of injuries to being able to move through a greater range of motion, thus improving your performance.

But what is the ideal stretching protocol? This is the question that was posed by a few researchers in a recent study by the Journal of Strength Conditioning Exercise.

The study’s purpose was to determine whether the timing (before or after a workout) of a series of static stretching would impact flexibility levels in the hip, knee and ankle. The stretching would be performed either before or after a workout and then results would be taken.

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