Stiff Joints Not Flexible? Learn How to Stretch Your Body with 19 Exercises to Make Your Body Feel Relaxed
Stretching involves expanding our tense muscles and the fascia and tendons surrounding them, making the body more flexible and supple.
Stretching is an indispensable part of our daily training. It has many benefits: performing stretching exercises can fully activate muscles, increase muscle extensibility and elasticity, and maintain muscle health.
Improve joint mobility
When joint mobility is restricted by overly tight neuromuscular tissue, stretching exercises are the main way to increase joint mobility. Enhancing joint mobility can also reduce the occurrence of sports injuries.
Enhance athletic performance
Many studies have proven that scientific stretching training can effectively enhance muscle strength, power and balance ability.
Quick recovery
Stretching can reduce delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS) and muscle stiffness produced 24~28 hours after exercise. It is better to stretch immediately when the muscle is still hot, and then do 20 minutes of stretching before going to bed. The effect will be better.

Of course, if the stretching method is not correct, it can also cause harm to the body. Now let'sbroadcast a full body stretching action , quickly collect it!~
- Also, you should at least do stretching exercises for 5 days a week, 1~4 times a day, and each time for 15~30 seconds, which is very beneficial for maintaining muscle health and physical health.

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Text from NASM-CES American National Strength and Conditioning Association Corrective Exercise Training Guide (Revised Edition).
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Reviewed by experts from the National Sports Bureau Sports Science Institute.