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Muscles are stretched during static stretching when you are recovering post exercise sessions or between sessions. It is another form of relaxant made up of different types of exercises to stretch the muscle to the fullest. You may feel uncomfortable as you hold on to it for 10 to 30 seconds with an intense warm feeling setting in. Tension in the muscles is reduced and you can easily repeat the stretches and extend a little longer every time you perform them.

Hamstring becomes more flexible

Primarily, lingering hamstring injuries and tensions are best treated with static stretching. Immediately after an injury, most athletes land up with hamstring problems. They become stiff and tense. Extending your leg and stretching does a lot to make your hamstring more flexible. It is a sort of like greasing hub on a bike, which helps your legs rotate better. After intense activities like vigorous sporting events, your hamstring gets stiff with reduced flexibility. During a recent study conducted on several groups of athletes, it was found that repeated static stretching improved the flexibility of the hamstring.

Warm up exercises done by performing light cardio activities that are not dynamic can do wonders for your hamstrings. From the findings it was revealed that the static stretching when combined with warm up can improve flexibility of the hamstring in the short term. The study was based on athletes who had injuries, had recovered from them and also those without injuries. Instead of leg stretches with gentle swings, athletes with nagging stiffness after injuries can try the various versions of extended leg stretching. Hamstring strains can develop if flexibility remains reduced for some time.

Among all forms of stretching, static stretching is the most well known and preferred. From personal trainers to therapists, every one of them love to teach static stretching as it is easy to teach and far easier to learn as well. It takes 10 to 30 seconds of your time to extend a muscle to its farthest point of tension and keep it there. Compared to dynamic stretching which is best for athletes, static stretching can also be practiced by ordinary people learning it from coaches and fitness specialists. Dynamic stretch training is only good for physical activity that requires sudden and quick movements.

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Good for dancers and athletes and before summer workouts

During warm weather, people hit the outdoors for Naked Commando or Super Cardio for exercising and they are usually more dynamic and vigorous in nature. But before embarking on such high intensity activity, static stretching is imperative to help avoid injury risks. Proper stretching exercises reduce the risk of injury that can affect those venturing into sudden high intensity activity after months practicing indoors. But it would go a long way in making your body more flexible as you lengthen your muscles and then let it stay in a stretched position for a while in that position of stretch angle.

There have been some controversies over the benefits from this form of stretching. But it has also been proved helpful to those athletes who do it before taking up the more rigorous exercises during their fitness programs. But medical practitioners have pointed out in their studies that for a long term positive effect for dancers and athletes, static stretching for a few seconds help.

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