Stretching and practicing flexibility is important to your physical health. Why is it so difficult to stretch for 10 minutes following an hour workout for many of us? I think for many of us we are always on the go and stretching requires us to slow down and be intentional about our movement. That can be a challenge in itself.
The following blog is all about stretching, flexibility and the reasons why you want to do it regularly. If you stay to the end, I share about a program I created that I’m proud to share with you. If you find any value in my content, I’d be honored if you’d share it with someone you care about.
#1 Know Why You Should Stretch⠀
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Check out this article from the University of Berkeley on the benefits of stretching. I especially like the inclusion of how much time for each.
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Comment below on your big takeaway⠀
#2 Time For The Principle of Specificity!⠀
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What is that exactly you ask?⠀
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The Principle of Specificity states whatever muscles you use in your workout, should be stretched accordingly.⠀
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This is great news! ⠀
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In simple terms, only stretch the muscles you’re incorporating in that day’s workout. You can do dynamic before the main workout, or static afterwards⠀
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Save on time and hassle by stretching the muscles you used in your main workout.
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#3 Say no to bounce!
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You heard 👂 me!⠀
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When stretching, you should NEVER EVER bounce (also called ballistic stretching)⠀
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Back in the 70s the research looked like it helped⠀
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Wrong⠀
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They tested it a few more times and found it increased the likeliness of injuries to athletes…⠀
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Instead of bouncing, have nice slow fluid movements like butter at the end of your workout or dynamic stretches.⠀
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#4 Dynamic Vs. Static Stretches⠀
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Dynamic = in motion⠀
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Static = isolated motion⠀
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Dynamic if you have watched my previous videos is recommended prior to weight training and/or CrossFit type workouts⠀
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Static is fine at the end of your workout⠀
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Whatever you do, never do static before a warm up. Dynamic can be done in conjunction with your warm-up because its movement and gets the blood flowing simultaneously ⠀
#5 💃🏃♀️🤸♀️💪🙏🙌 The Move Happy Facilitator Program© Includes Poignant Stretches?!⠀
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Super excited & proud to share my 16-week program with you!⠀
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It is something I actually facilitated to my former patients in a psychiatric hospital. We ran the program 4 days a week and each week included a topic like how I share with you every week! All weekly topics were related to happiness from what I researched⠀
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I created a psychological questionnaire to measure happiness (simple 1-pager) & a fitness questionnaire to measure fitness so you and your participants can track progress throughout.⠀
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My patients improved for the most part in both areas consistently and spread news about the group around the hospital 💜 ⠀
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Each day includes:⠀
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Journaling 📓 (pre-designed questions I created)⠀
Group Discussion of the daily topic (a subtopic of the weekly)⠀
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Workouts 🏋️♀️ With Minimal Equipment ⠀
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I recreated the workouts via video example for you⠀
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Move Happy® Updates
The Move Happy Podcast is growing steadily. Later this summer we’re having our first BBC guest on the show. I’m really excited for you all to hear from them. Make sure to follow my channel to stay updated on the official release.
So there it is. Stretch daily. Stretch your mind, stretch the right muscles for the workout, and stretch your comfort zone with the Move Happy Facilitator Program©. If there was ever a time when you should be focused on stretching, it should be now.
Thanks for reading!
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